Do you get many of those error messages in the logs at once, or just one at a time?
Only one thought: what are the permissions on your $USER$ variables? Nagios on my systems setuid() to nonroot after startup, and if it gets SIGHUP to reload config, but can't read the file defining $USER*$, will act strangely. Justin On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:48:09AM -0500, C. Bensend wrote: > > > I'm continuing to iron out the wrinkles with 3.5.1 and distributed > > monitoring. I'm using mod_gearman to submit and receive events from > > two distributed pollers. > > > > Every now and again, I'll get something similar in the log on the > > centralized collecting machine: > > > > CRITICAL: Return code of 127 is out of bounds. Make sure the plugin > > youre trying to run actually exists. (worker: collector.domain.org) > > > > To me, that suggests that the collector system didn't get a result > > for a host or service in a timely manner from one of the polling > > systems, and so it attempted to run an active check itself. However, > > it doesn't seem to be able to, and I don't know why. > > > > The collector has the same value for $USER1$, and it has the same > > set of plugins installed on it: > > > > On the collector: > > > > grep USER1 etc/resource.cfg > > $USER1$=/usr/local/nagios/libexec > > > > On the two pollers: > > > > $USER1$=/usr/local/nagios/libexec > > $USER1$=/usr/local/nagios/libexec > > > > The plugins are installed in identical locations on all three systems, > > that's enforced via Puppet. The 'nagios' user can find and run them on > > the collector: > > > > /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 127.0.0.1 > > NRPE v2.13 > > > > Now, because this is a distributed setup, the collector system is > > not configured to run active checks: > > > > grep ^execute etc/nagios.cfg > > execute_service_checks=0 > > execute_host_checks=0 > > > > ... but *obviously* it's trying to. Is it failing because it's > > configured to not run them? If that's the case, the error message is > > not accurate and should be corrected. If that's *not* the case, why > > can't my collector server run an active check when it believes it needs > > to? > > > > I use NConf to generate my configurations, if that matters. There are > > a *lot* of hosts/services and quite a few configuration files, so I'm not > > going to paste a slew of information here. If I'm missing pertinent > > information, please let me know exactly what you want to see and I'll > > get it. > > No one has an idea about this? And no, Andreas, I can't move to > 4.0 yet. ;) > > Thanks! > > Benny > > > -- > "No matter how tempted I am with the prospect of unlimited power, I > will not consume any energy field bigger than my head." > -- #22 on Peter Anspach's Evil > Overlord list > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies > and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step > tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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
