Performance data not being returned
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Thu May 10 20:55:17 CEST 2012
On 05/10/2012 06:04 PM, Jonathan Gazeley wrote:
> On 10/05/12 16:39, C. Bensend wrote:
>>
>>> I've narrowed it down to a stage where running the plugin directly
>>> returns the right results, but running the plugin through check_nrpe on
>>> localhost returns this:
>>>
>>> [jg4461 at dhcp1 log]$ /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H localhost -c
>>> check_dhcpd_pools
>>> OK - all pools less than 80% full |
>>>
>>> What could cause NRPE to truncate the results in such a way?
>>
>> Too much data?
>>
>> Are you using SSL?
>>
>> I don't know that I've seen this behavior before - it's always
>> been *invalid* perfdata that have caused this issue for me.
>>
>
> I am using SSL in production, although not for testing. Both cases
> return the same truncated results.
>
> The total status + performance data returned from this plugin is only
> 500-and-something bytes, less than the limits for NRPE that I'd heard about.
>
I have no real clue about that, but perhaps it's a newline thing,
since the output and pipe are shipped in output while the perfdata
doesn't seem to be.
> I'm wondering if it might be something to do with the embedded perl
> interpreter. Does NRPE use this to execute perl-flavoured plugins?
>
It does not. Only plugins executed directly by Nagios can be affected
by embedded perl.
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