capturing $LONGSERVICEOUPUT$ from custom plugins

[Noel Platzke]

The custom plugin is being called via the check_by_ssh plugin and
$SERVICEOUTPUT$ is captured just fine. If I run it by hand it gives the
expected results.




On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:

> Please always respond on list. More below --
>
> On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Noel Platzke wrote:
>
>  I'm looking for it to be captured in the $LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$ macro. Where
>> else would it be?
>>
>
> That will capture anything after the first line of text but if you're
> looking for it as part of a host notification (or elsewhere it's not
> supported), you're not going to find it. That's what I meant by 'where/how
> are you looking for it'.
>
>  All I'm doing is writing plaintext output to stdout but for some reason
>> nagios isn't picking it up. If I run the script by hand it prints to stdout.
>> If I change the output to a file it writes to the file fine. But if the
>> script is invoked by nagios it never sees the output.
>>
>
> Does $SERVICEOUTPUT$ capture the first line of output of your script? If
> not, you probably need to provide more specific detail about nagios version,
> how you're calling your plugin from nagios (command{} definition, etc) and
> specifically how it's providing it's output for nagios to capture. The
> assumption to this point is that nagios is calling the plugin directly.
> Other methods can yield different results.
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
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