On 05/10/2012 06:04 PM, Jonathan Gazeley wrote: > On 10/05/12 16:39, C. Bensend wrote: >> >>> I've narrowed it down to a stage where running the plugin directly >>> returns the right results, but running the plugin through check_nrpe on >>> localhost returns this: >>> >>> [jg4461@dhcp1 log]$ /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H localhost -c >>> check_dhcpd_pools >>> OK - all pools less than 80% full | >>> >>> What could cause NRPE to truncate the results in such a way? >> >> Too much data? >> >> Are you using SSL? >> >> I don't know that I've seen this behavior before - it's always >> been *invalid* perfdata that have caused this issue for me. >> > > I am using SSL in production, although not for testing. Both cases > return the same truncated results. > > The total status + performance data returned from this plugin is only > 500-and-something bytes, less than the limits for NRPE that I'd heard about. >
I have no real clue about that, but perhaps it's a newline thing, since the output and pipe are shipped in output while the perfdata doesn't seem to be. > I'm wondering if it might be something to do with the embedded perl > interpreter. Does NRPE use this to execute perl-flavoured plugins? > It does not. Only plugins executed directly by Nagios can be affected by embedded perl. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ 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
