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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What does ‘View Config’ say for that service?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>After selecting the ‘Check Command’ for that service, you will see how the command is constructed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Maybe you need an additional $ARG2$ or something. The output is acting like ${HDTEMP} is (null).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best Regards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mark Clayton [mailto:clayton256@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 16, 2012 2:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> nagiosplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nagiosplug-devel] Missing character in plugin output<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>I put together a bash script to use as a plugin. It is to monitor a hard drive temperature via hddtemp on a linux box. I based the script on check_log. The interesting bits are:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><snip><br clear=all></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> HDTEMP=$(/user/sbin/hddtemp $DRIVE | awk '{ print $4}' | awk -F '°' '{ print $1}')<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><snip><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> /bin/echo "($DRIVE)=${HDTEMP} C."<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><snip><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The command line output looks fine:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>root@little-harbor:/home/mark# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_hddtemp -d /dev/sda<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(/dev/sda)=36 C.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But Firefox and Safari show:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='background:#DBDBDB;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='background:#DBDBDB;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://little-harbor.local/cgi-bin/nagios3/extinfo.cgi?type=2&host=localhost&service=Disk+Temperature" target="_blank">Disk Temperature</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td><td style='background:#DBDBDB;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=right><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></td><td style='background:#33FF00;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>OK<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td nowrap style='background:#DBDBDB;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="tel:2012-01-16%2013" target="_blank">2012-01-16 13</a>:14:55<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td nowrap style='background:#DBDBDB;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>0d 4h 8m 22s<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='background:#DBDBDB;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1/4<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='background:#DBDBDB;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(/dev/sda)= C. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The machine details are:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Ubuntu 11.10</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Nagios core 3.2.3</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Nagios plugins 1.4.15</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Apache 2.2.20</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Does anyone have any thoughts?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mark</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://claytoncapers.blogspot.com" target="_blank">claytoncapers.blogspot.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.mark-clayton.com" target="_blank">www.mark-clayton.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>