[Nagiosplug-help] RE: "UNKNOWN" problem, with a return code of 0 in solaris 9. (Patrick Walentiny)

[Meg Denham]

I had this problem too, and this is the answer I posted to the list back
in July:


 I've been looking for a solution to this problem, and I think I have
it.  The problem is
not so much with check_by_ssh as with the ssh command itself.  If the
ssh command returns 0
from the remote machine, that's what check_by_ssh sees.  I had some
trouble using
check_by_ssh with another perl script called authprogs running the ssh
command on the remote
machine, which always returned a 0 exit status.  When I fixed authprogs
on the remote
machine to return the true plugin return code, then the check_by_ssh
return code was correct
too.


Just rephrasing this, the return code of 0 means that ssh ran okay, but
it doesn't tell you anything about the output of the command that you
ran using ssh.  You will have to change the remote script to do this
properly. 

 Meg.

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> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:48:07 -0600
> From: "Patrick Walentiny" <Patrick.Walentiny at stellent.com>
> To: <nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] "UNKNOWN" problem, with a return
> code of 0 in solaris 9.
>
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>             We are using nagios to monitor multiple UNIX
> systems, including Solaris 2.6 8 & 9.  Our method for doing
> so is public keys saved in the "authorized_keys" file of each
> nagios client's home directory etc...  When our server runs
> the "check_by_ssh" against solaris 9 clients, the nagios
> server claims it is getting a status of "UNKNOWN".  I dug in
> to the documentation to find out that this is figured out via
> return codes, IE 0,1,2,3 etc...  So I ran check_by_ssh
> against the system in question to see for myself what the
> problem was. I am only able to get return codes of 0 "OK". 
> I'll show the syntax I used below.  I can get it to also give
> return codes of 1 and 2 if I intentionally invoke a warning
> or critical condition, but when it is run from the nagios
> process itself it shows up as "UNKNOWN", and occasionally
> flaps to okay for brief periods of time, even though the
> status output shows the disks are perfectly okay.
>             Here is my output from my tests....

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