Thanks Marc, I got the plug in from <a href="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">www.nagiosexchange.org</a>, sorry I didn't specify that earlier I gave the traffic files in /tmp nagios group and user ownership and after that, I ran the following command as the nagios user and this is the result I got nagios@snmp:/usr/local/nagios/libexec$ ./check_iftraffic.pl -H <a href="http://41.211.0.42">41.211.0.42</a> -C britania -i eth0 -b 100 -u m Total RX Bytes: 1395.95 MB, Total TX Bytes: 2173.82 MB Average Traffic: 0.00 kB/s (0.0%) in, 0.00 kB/s (0.0%) out| inUsage=0.0,85,98 outUsage=0.0,85,98 inAbsolut=1429448 outAbsolut=2225990 nagios@snmp:/usr/local/nagios/libexec$ ./check_iftraffic.pl -H <a href="http://41.211.0.42">41.211.0.42</a> -C britania -i eth0 -b 100 -u m Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at ./check_iftraffic.pl line 185, <FILE> line 1. Total RX Bytes: 1395.99 MB, Total TX Bytes: 2173.86 MB Average Traffic: 4.12 kB/s (0.0%) in, 4.12 kB/s (0.0%) out| inUsage=0.0,85,98 outUsage=0.0,85,98 inAbsolut=1429448 outAbsolut=2225990 nagios@snmp:/usr/local/nagios/libexec$ ./check_iftraffic.pl -H <a href="http://41.211.0.42">41.211.0.42</a> -C britania -i eth0 -b 100 -u m Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at ./check_iftraffic.pl line 185, <FILE> line 1. Total RX Bytes: 1396.02 MB, Total TX Bytes: 2173.89 MB Average Traffic: 3.60 kB/s (0.0%) in, 3.64 kB/s (0.0%) out| inUsage=0.0,85,98 outUsage=0.0,85,98 inAbsolut=1429493 outAbsolut=2226035 I reckon this means that the plug in is working when ran from the nagios plugin directory via the command line. However, the UNKNOWN error still remains as reported from the the web cgi. Am I missing something? Alex <div>On 10/11/07, Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > -----Original Message----- > From: <a href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:nagios-users-">nagios-users-</a> > <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] On Behalf Of Alex Dehaini > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:17 AM > To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net"> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> > Subject: [Nagios-users] check_iftraffic.pl plugin > > Hi Guys, > > I need some help on how to use the check_iftraffic.pl plug in. I want > nagios to notify me if any of my servers reach a 150kbits/sec on their > NIC. This is what I have done so far. > > 1. I downloaded the plug in and gave it the appropriate ownership and > permissions. When asking questions about a non-standard plugin, it's very helpful to provide specific details about where you got it from. How do we know the check_iftraffic.pl that google tells us about as the top hit is the same one you're using? > UNKNOWN 10-11-2007 15:10:44 0d 0h 2m 22s 3/6 (No output!) "NO output!" typically means the plugin is reporting errors. > Can anyone please assist me. When I run this from the plug in directory, I > get results, forexample > > snmp:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_iftraffic.pl -H <a href="http://41.211.0.42">41.211.0.42</a> -C > community -i eth0 -b 100 -u m > Total RX Bytes: 1381.80 MB, Total TX Bytes: 2155.67 MB Average Traffic: > 10.23 kB/s (0.1%) in, 12.45 kB/s ( 0.1%) out| inUsage=0.1,85,98 > outUsage=0.1,85,98 inAbsolut=1410835 outAbsolut=2202385 This implies a permissions issue. Testing as root isn't useful since nagios isn't running the plugin as root. Do the same test again, except as the nagios user. I'll bet you get different and more informative results. I'm going to take a very arbitrary guess and assume that I'm looking at the same plugin as you. It uses a temporary file, hard-coded as /tmp/traffic. Based on your test above, that file is almost certainly owned by root and probably isn't modifiable by the nagios user. Change ownership/permissions of the file or remove it entirely, then test again as the nagios user. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. 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