Trying to develop a new perl plugin

[Boyer, Timothy A.]

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From: Nibin VM [nibin.vm at piserve.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 10:46 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Trying to develop a new perl plugin

Hello guys,

I am trying to write some nagios perl plugin to monitor some services  I'm responsible for. Initially I tried to write  custom plugin to monitor mail queue using the following script.

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Net::SNMP;
use Getopt::Long;

use lib "/usr/lib64/nagios/libexec";
my %ERRORS=('OK'=>0,'WARNING'=>1,'CRITICAL'=>2,'UNKNOWN'=>3);
my $host = undef;
my $result = undef;
my @array = undef;

$host=$ARGV[0];
$result=`/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_snmp -H $host -C "community" -o extOutput.1`;

@array = split(/\ /, $result);
chomp($array[3]);

if ( $array[3] le "19999" )
{
 print "OK: current emails queue is $array[3]\n";
 exit $ERRORS{"OK"};
}

elsif ( $array[3] ge "20000"  &&  $array[3] le "29999" )
{
 print "Warning: current emails queue is $array[3]\n";
 exit $ERRORS{"WARNING"};
}

elsif ( $array[3] ge "30000" )
{
 print "Critical: current emails queue is $array[3]\n";
 exit $ERRORS{"CRITICAL"};
}

else
{
 print "Unknown";
 exit $ERRORS{"UNKNOWN"};
}
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As you can see, I use snmp to pull mail queue from the remote server. When I try the command from command line it work fine.

]# ./test.pl<http://test.pl> "server name"
OK: current emails queue is 264

But from the nagios from end it shows as critical and it shows "Critical: current emails queue is Unknown" error :(

Please somebody help me to sort this out. Obviously its the first perl script that  I ever wrote and I really interested to write more plugins in perl(I am in love with perl now :) ).

Thanks in advance!

--
Regards,
Nibin.




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