nsclient++ and checkservicestate return limits

[Terry]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Marc Powell<marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 26, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Terry wrote:
>
>> It appears my output is getting cut about 1/2 way through the
>> service list:
>>
>> [root at omajelut01 objects]# /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H
>> omajelut02 -t 50 -c checkServiceState -a CheckAll ShowAll
>
> [1024 characters of output snipped]
>
>> What could be limiting this?
>
> There's a 1024 character limit for exit text in the NRPE protocol.
> This used to be the limit for nagios itself until nagios-3. http://opsview-blog.opsera.com/dotorg/2008/08/enhancing-nrpe.html
>  might be an interesting read.
>
>> I am concerned that some services are not be evaluated.
>
> They're being evaluated, just not passed in the 'for humans only' text
> part.
>
>> I also want to use this as a manual inventory
>> check but can't if I am missing 1/2 of the services.
>
> NRPE/nsclient++ may not be the tool for the job. I am not aware of any
> windows clients that extend the NRPE protocol beyond that 1024
> character limit or implement the opsview extension.
>
> --
> Marc
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ok, that makes me feel better.  I don't feel like patching nrpe to
make this work.  I'll just have someone audit them manually.  :)

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