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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Hi</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>I wrote a Nagios plugin but am facing some problem while executing the same from nagios. Below are the steps followed:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>I wrote a java program that will invoke a Web service and calculate the time taken. This java program then writes back the outout to a text file.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>I have a shell script which is executing the java program, read the text file generated and echo the output.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Defined a .cfg file to execute the shell script </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> define service{</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> use local-service</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> host_name localhost</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> service_description SHELL SCRIPT<br>check_command check_search_time<br>normal_check_interval 1</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>}<br>define command{</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:windowtext'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> command_name check_search_time</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:windowtext'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> command_line </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:windowtext'>$USER1$</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>/ws_search.sh<br>}<br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Added above .cfg file entry in nagios.cfg file as<br>cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/wssearch.cfg</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>This shell script works file when execute</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:windowtext'>d</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> the same as ‘Nagios’ User. But when check</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:windowtext'>ed</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> the above configured service from ‘Nagios UI’. It says ‘<b>No output returned by plugin’</b> as well as there is no txt file generated by java program. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Please let us know </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:windowtext'>I am</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> missing anything.</span><br><br><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>Thanks In Advance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Amarpal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>