[Nagiosplug-help] problems with check_hpjd plugin

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:04:32AM -0400, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> > > But "check_hpjd -H admprinter -C itdrift" still returns:
> > > Timeout: No response from admprinter
> > > What else could be wrong?
> > could you run check_hpjd under truss/strace to see if it is actually 
> > running the snmpget command?
> 
> root at gabriel /usr/local/nagios/libexec# strace ./check_hpjd -H admprinter -C itdrift 2> output
> Timeout: No response from admprinter
> 
> root at gabriel /usr/local/nagios/libexec# grep -i snmp output
> root at gabriel /usr/local/nagios/libexec#
> 
> > Also if you could run "tcpdump port 161" to see if any snmp packets are 
> > being generated.
> 
> No packets get created..
> 
> I have snmpget in /usr/local/bin - could that have something to do with
> it?
> 
> When I first compiled nagiosplugins I did not have snmp installed, so
> check_hpjd did not get compiled, but after I installed snmp it was
> compiled without me having to tell ./configure where snmp was installed,
> so I would guess that it is not because of path problems (besides,
> /usr/local/bin is in my path!)
> 
> 


looks like a problem in check_hpjd calling snmpget.  perhaps a recompile  
or looking thru the strace output to see if anything odd stands out. 

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-sg