Dear Rob, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
On 15/09/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 15/09/2006 09:11:01: > > Thanks for picking that one up Stanley.. I had to leave work before the > reply came in.. > > The core of the problem is the original coder didn't enable Strict syntax > checking, and probably didn't enable warnings. Nagios's ePN plugin does > the right thing and uses Strict syntax checking and gives warnings (this is > standard perl practice).. > > You will need to contact the developer of the plugin to tidy up his code, > or you can go in yourself and declare the variables yourself like I showed > you, adding in the "my $var;" statement, or you could go the lazy route and > run the script through an external perl interpereter without warnings or > syntax checking, but losing lots of speed from launching an external > process to compile + run the script every 5 minutes instead of running the > internally compiled script.. > Yep. > There is apparently an ePN commandline util that you may be able to run > which should work exactly the same as the embedded perl interpereter, you > may need to check this in the docs or source.. > contrib/new_mini_epn.c On the Dag RPM for RHEL systems, it is built (Yay Dag) and installed in /usr/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] sh1517]$ uname -a Linux acisf011.portfolio.base 2.4.21-20.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 20:31:57 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] sh1517]$ ls -l /usr/bin/new_mini_epn -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 16180 Jul 27 16:04 /usr/bin/new_mini_epn [EMAIL PROTECTED] sh1517]$ It is a bit hard to use but useful (it supports the Perl Term::ReadLine module so there is command history). Here is how I recommend using it 1 cd to your plugin directory or your dev directory 2 cp the p1.pl into this path 3 cp the new_mini_epn into this path Fire it up. [EMAIL PROTECTED] switches]$ cp /usr/bin/p1.pl . [EMAIL PROTECTED] switches]$ cp /usr/bin/new_mini_epn . [EMAIL PROTECTED] switches]$ ./new_mini_epn plugin command line: check_rootport embedded perl plugin return code and output was: 3 & Must specify non-null value for -H option. Outahere. plugin command line: check_rootport -h embedded perl plugin return code and output was: 0 & check_rootport (nagios-plugins 1.4) 1.8 plugin command line: check_rootport -H 10.0.254.161 embedded perl plugin return code and output was: 0 & Ok. No topology change: root port of 10.0.254.161 has not changed from that expected: 1. See <a href="http://nms/cgi-bin/display_spanning_tree";>Current spanning tree graph</a>. plugin command line: check_rootport -H 10.0.254.171 embedded perl plugin return code and output was: 0 & Ok. No topology change: root port of 10.0.254.171 has not changed from that expected: 50. See <a href="http://nms/cgi-bin/display_spanning_tree";>Current spanning tree graph</a>. plugin command line: check_rootport -H 10.0.254.181 embedded perl plugin return code and output was: 3 & Switch 10.0.254.181 not found in %std_building_switch2root_port. Outahere. plugin command line: check_rootport -H 10.0.254.191 embedded perl plugin return code and output was: 3 & Switch 10.0.254.191 not found in %std_building_switch2root_port. Outahere. plugin command line: That's all folks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] switches]$ HTH. Yours sincerely. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
