check_cluster2 problem found - looking for a solution

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Wed Feb 2 05:12:50 CET 2005


shell wrapper around check_cluster with all the Service IDs hardcoded...
-sg

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Greg Vickers wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm pretty sure that I know what the problem is with passing a massive list 
> of service IDs to check_cluster2.
>
> This is my theory: When Nagios forks off a process to run check_cluster2 the 
> list of service state ID numbers (converted by Nagios from on-demand macros) 
> is passed on the command line. The numbers are many characters long and the 
> environment that check_cluster2 runs in doesn't have enough space on the 
> command line for all the numbers. Any characters that make up the 23rd ID 
> number are truncated, hence 1 service always critical, that service ID isn't 
> found.
>
> Does this sound like what is happening? Is there another clever way to pass 
> the list of service state ID numbers to the forked process so that there is 
> no truncation and you can pass as many service state ID numbers as you want?
>
> If you can help or have suggestions please email me or the list :)
>
> Thanks,
>

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