$SERVICEOUTPUT$ weirdness

[frank]

I think this is the same problem my company hit recently with a fresh 
rollout. Our solution was to use the old 'p1.pl' from 2.0b2 in place of 
the new one from 2.0b4.

YMMV.
-frank

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, James S. White wrote:

> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:29:16 -0600 (CST)
> From: James S. White <james at jameswhite.org>
> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Re: $SERVICEOUTPUT$ weirdness
> 
> This seems to be embeded perl related.  Plugin Output: is  '' on all of my
> custom perl service checks. This started happening when I moved from 2.0b2 to
> 2.0b4. It seems that checks.c:run_service_check() doesn't like output on
> stdout or is ignoring it for some reason.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
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> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Joseph Hardeman wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I am experiencing sort of the same problem, but my nagiostat is able to read
>> the $SERVICEOUTPUT$ and the $SERVICEDESC$ fields, but when I send the email
>> notifications, they are not capturing the data from these fields. Don't know
>> why, just very curious why it won't pass those couple of variables, will
>> keep looking at it. I have put in other variables that is being passed and
>> using those for the notifications.
>>
>> Here is what I have put in for the nagiostat:
>> "$LASTSERVICECHECK$||$HOSTNAME$||$SERVICEDESC$||$SERVICEOUTPUT$||$SERVICEPERFDATA$"
>>
>> Which is passed to a RRD file for parsing by Cacti for graphing.
>>
>> Joseph Hardeman
>>
>> I upgraded from 2.0b2 to 2.0b4 and now some of my servicechecks say
>>> "(No output!)" or "(No output returned from plugin)"
>>>
>>> When running it by hand produces: "Load : 0.00 0.00 0.00 : OK "
>>>
>>> I can copy the 2.0b2 binary of "nagios" from a working (production) system
>>> and overwrite the 2.0b4 binary and My output is then seen by nagios and
>>> passed
>>> to nagiostat.
>>>
>>> Further examination showed that $SERVICEOUTPUT$ was empty. Was this
>>> something
>>> that was introduced with the 2.0b3 changelog item "Fixed segfaults in CGIs
>>> where plugin output was NULL"? Or does nagios now do strict output
>>> checking
>>> of the servicechecks. This seems to only effect plugins whose output
>>> doesn't
>>> take the form: <TAG> <STATUS> - <data> <data>... as in:
>>>
>>> CPU OK - 0 0 99 246458 43619 40728186 2312
>>>
>>> I hate the idea that I will have to re-configure nagiostat's regular
>>> expressions.
>>>
>>> Please advise.
>>>
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