strange Warning and source modification

[Andreas Ericsson]

Basile Mathieu wrote:
> first thanks :)
> 
> here is my system :
> 
> 3 nagios servers ( one under Fedora , two under gentoo ( one 386 and one sparc )
> there are two active servers which send results with nsca
> 
> 
>>>'os/etc/switch_conf_195.220.107.207' to ring a bell for you. Where
>>>does that come from?
> 
> 
> i use bash script to get informations on vlan and switch configuration
> i just "echo > " for seing informations in nagios interface
> 

You do know that you have to maintain a certain format when kicking 
things into the named pipe don't you? Read the docs on how to format the 
message if this is news for you.

> i observe that the are some checks that seems to stop ( the last check time
> "freeze" )
> it might be the reason of this logs :
> 
> usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log:[1119960410] Warning:  Message
> 
>>>>queue contained results for service '' on host 'ú'.  The service
>>>>could not be found! /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log:[1119960661]
> 

This seems to indicate that you don't have the faintest inkling on how 
to submit passive check-results. I suggest a deep dive in the 
documentation and some serious work on the checking script.

> 
>  basile
> 
> Selon Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>:
> 
> 
>>Marc Powell wrote:
>>
>>>>-----Original Message----- From:
>>>>nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>>>>admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Basile Mathieu Sent:
>>>>Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:27 AM To:
>>>>nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] strange
>>>>Warning and source modification
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>hi i have two questions : first i have this line in my log and don
>>>>t understand what it means
>>>>
>>>>/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log:[1119960410] Warning:  Message
>>>>queue contained results for service '' on host 'ú'.  The service
>>>>could not be found! /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log:[1119960661]
>>>>Warning:  Message queue contained results for service '' on host
>>>>'õx /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log:[1119961089] Warning:  Message
>>>>queue contained results for service '' on host 'âß '.  The service
>>>>could not be found! /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log:[1119961370]
>>>>Warning:  Message queue contained results for service '' on host
>>>>'û'.  The service could not be found!
>>>>/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log:[1119961930] Warning:  Message
>>>>queue contained results for service '' on host 'xð'.  The service
>>>>could not be found! /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log:[1119963481]
>>>>Warning:  Message queue contained results for service
>>>>'os/etc/switch_conf_195.220.107.207' on host ' '.  The service
>>>>could not be found!
>>>
>>>
>>>You haven't provided much information on your installation but at a
>>>guess, you have something that is writing bad data to nagios.cmd. Do
>>>you have something submitting passive service checks? Have you
>>>mistakenly configured some application to write to nagios.cmd when it
>>>shouldn't be? I would have expected something like
>>>'os/etc/switch_conf_195.220.107.207' to ring a bell for you. Where
>>>does that come from?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>second i use nagios to get vlan information and  to see it in the
>>>>nagios interface i have to recompile nagios with MAX_PLUGIN_OUTPUT
>>>>larger when i launch nagios i have
>>>>
>>>>Warning: Size of service_message struct (4252 bytes) is >
>>>>POSIX-guaranteed atomic write size (512 bytes).  Service checks
>>>>results may get lost or mangled!
>>>>
>>>>and i set this MAX_PLUGIN_OUTPUT larger and larger but it seems
>>>>that the output in the web interface don t increase
>>>
>>>
>>>Hmm. Seems like that would correlate nicely with the problems that
>>>you're seeing above (specifically service checks being mangled). This
>>>last might be better for nagios-devel but I'll bet that the max size
>>>and the warning above are there for a reason. 4K is a _lot_ for
>>>plugin return data and I'll bet there are other variables that you'll
>>>need to adjust to support that, if it's possible at all.
>>>
>>
>>It's possible, but on Linux some fiddling and a re-compile of the kernel
>>is necessary to enable named pipe transfers larger than 4096 bytes. I
>>believe (although I'm not sure) that this holds true for *BSD as well.
>>
>>
>>>-- Marc
>>>
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