[Nagiosplug-help] 1 questions about plugins : check_log2 and 1 solution for check_procs

[Thomas]

Hi

First thanks to everybody for your help ! Thx !

Volker: Yes! you find the problem, the configure script said that the 
correct line for my debian (woody) is :
--->   /bin/ps -axo 'stat user ppid args'  <----
But under debian, the ps command return a little warning messages which is:
Bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'?   <======================= HERE ===
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0  1300  464 ?        S    Aug19   0:14 init
root         2  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Aug19   0:05 [keventd]
....

The solution is to modify the command in the $NAGIOSSRC/plugins/config.h 
and to suppress the minus in all ps command
under vi :%s/ps -/ps /
Thanks Volker !!!!
I will compil it to try it now ;)

For the check_log, I will try check_log2.pl but how it is possible to 
extract all error level messages in the /var/log/messages for examples 
(like Big Brother does).

For volker: nagiosplug1.3b1 (nagios only no more netsaint ;), but I want 
to use check_log2.pl now, seems to be better in performance but just not 
understand how to extract all error or warning messages from syslog 
messages.

thx and some ideas
Tom


Volker.Aust at premiere.de wrote:

>Hi Thomas,
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Thomas [mailto:tguthmann at cvf.fr]
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:19 PM
>>To: Nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net;
>>Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] 2 questions about plugins : check_procs &
>>check_log
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>>Hi,
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>>I'm running nagios 1.0b5/ nagiosplug1.3b1 on debian 3.0 (woody). 
>>Netsaint, oops, nagios works fine but I'm encountering problems with 
>>plugins usage and especially check_procs & check_log.
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>>*First check_procs:
>>Forget nagios config, I just run check_procs on command line 
>>like this :
>>./check_procs -w 80 -c 95
>>System call sent warnings to stderr
>>CRITICAL - 143 processes running
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>>So as you can see I received a warning message "System call sent 
>>warnings to stderr" and Nagios only intercept the warning and 
>>said this 
>>line in the web interface. I don't know where this message is coming 
>>from because when I do a 'ps aux' I received no more message except 
>>processus line ... any idea, I put a strace of the command 
>>below at the 
>>end of the mail.
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>The strace show the following message:
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>>read(5, "Bad syntax, perhaps a bogus \'-\'?"..., 4096) = 33
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>The ps-command print this error message on STDERR and the plugin read this
>and print the message "System call sent warnings to stderr". You can see the
>ps-command-line in the plugins/config.h file in the directory there you
>compile the plugins. The line looks like '#define PS_COMMAND "/bin/ps
>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"' where the 'xxxxxxxxxxxxx' are the parameters configured by
>the ./configure-script. What happend when you call this line?
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>>*Then, check_log:
>>Here, I don't understand the usage on the command line, I tried :
>>#./check_log -F /var/log/messages -O /tmp/bidon -q error
>>Log check data initialized...
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>>It copies my var/log/message in the the file /tmp/bidon
>>and if I retry my command or if I modify it I always received that:
>>#./check_log -F /var/log/messages -O /tmp/bidon -q error
>>./check_log: line 200: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
>>./check_log: line 215: syntax error: unexpected end of file
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>>So to do simple: how does this plugin works ? (the -h is not 
>>so useful)
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>Did you use the netsaint or nagios plugins? Which version? My check_log
>scripts (netsaint-plugins-1.2.9-4 and nagios-plugins from the cvs) do not
>have a line '215'.
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>>Hope a good samaritan could help me ;)
>>Thx & A+
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>Hope this helps.
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>-vol
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