On May 28, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Aaron Mills wrote: > What I'm really trying to get is multi-line output. Nagios/NRPE > supports > this (v3.x) e.g.: > > TEXT OUTPUT | OPTIONAL PERFDATA > LONG TEXT LINE 1 > LONG TEXT LINE 2 > > This works for NRPE, but not with NSCA, since NSCA can only take a > single line as an argument. > > What I'm trying to achieve is sending process monitoring data back > passively like so: > > PROCS OK: > Proc1: 3 processes running > Proc2: 1 process running > Proc3: 1 process running > > Any ideas?
AFAIK, you're in uncharted territory. Based on what I've seen, the longer output support has only really been applied to active commands but the documentation does indicate that support for passive results is there. NSCA hasn't been updated to handle multi-line output as you've seen nor have I seen any talk that it's coming soon. I also expect that you might see problems using the normal mechanism of writing the check results to the external command _pipe_ due to OS size limitations there (~1K typically). I expect that would only be a problem with large data returns (nagios internally supports $OUTPUT$ + $LONGOUTPUT$ of about ~4K). At this point I think you're going to have to roll your own check result return mechanism that either writes appropriately sized commands to the external pipe or larger ones to a file and uses the external command PROCESS_FILE to reap the results. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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
