Thanks, Sven. I'm almost certain you're correct. For some reason I had thought that when I turned on large_installation_tweaks some time ago that environment variables were turned off. However, now I see that it only turns off summary macros. Not sure how I misinterpreted that.
So it would make sense that in the case of this particular collection of hosts and services that Nagios was probably creating such a large set of environment variables that it was perhaps overriding a shell limit and preventing the exec'd check from properly executing. I did some preliminary tests and turning that off cleared things up. And of course, in addition to fixing this issue, I believe I'm going to get a performance boost (or at least a resource usage drop) as an added bonus. Unfortunately the only place I do currently use environment variables is with several event scripts. Changing those scripts to use command-line variables is proving to be rather a pain in the butt given how many variables I have them check. But I'm getting there. Thanks very much for your help! Mark -----Original Message----- From: Sven Nierlein [mailto:sven.nierl...@consol.de] Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 2:05 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Have we reached some kind of Nagios limit? On 2/18/12 18:48, Frost, Mark {BIS} wrote: > ... > I added maybe 5 of these new hosts, ran the pre-flight check and restarted. > After the restart I started noticing that our failing service checks (for all > services) went from around 260 to over 4K. All of those new failing checks > were only on hosts of this same type (that particular application on Windows > servers I mentioned above which is also what these new hosts were part of) > and they were all reporting the same failure condition: > (Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing) > ... > What can I do? Disable environment macros. You hit the limit of maximum length of a new shell command which can be pretty huge when using env macros. Its strongly advised to turn them off when using mklivestatus anyway. Sven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ 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
