part of plugin output not displaying in status info

[Matthew J. Salerno]

Add "use strict" to your script.  It should be included in every perl script.

"jeff dinisco" <dinisco at gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm writing a plugin that monitors storage array cache utilization by
>processing the output of navicli (cli for EMC Clariion arrays).  The problem
>is that the value for cache utilization is not displaying in the status
>information field on the nagios web interface.  It seems like a whitespace
>or hidden character issue, but perls chomp doesn't solve it.
>
>Here's what the output looks like when the plugin is executed at the command
>line...
>
># ./check_cache 90 95
>Percent Dirty Pages 73
>
>Here's what nagios is displaying in the status information field...
>Percent Dirty Pages
>
>So it's the variable ($dirtypages) derived from the output of navicli that
>doesn't display.  Here's the plugin (I'm aware this script does nothing, I'm
>just trying to solve this particular issue)...
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>
>$warn = $ARGV[0];
>$crit = $ARGV[1];
>$clariion="garfunkel";
>
>open (NAVIOUT, "/opt/Navisphere/bin/naviseccli -h $clariion getcache |");
>while (<NAVIOUT>) {
>  chomp $_;
>  if (/^Prct Dirty Cache Pages =/) {
>    $dirtypages = (split / +/, $_)[5];
>  }
>}
>chomp $dirtypages;
>print "Percent Dirty Pages $dirtypages";
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>jd
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