<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>FW: Nagios / Perl oracle monitoring script</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> All, Hi, My name is Ken Munson and I work for Dallas Semiconductor in Dallas, TX. I found a perl script for checking the state of Oracle table spaces in a beta version tarball of some contributed plugins for Nagios. It looks very good. I had a considerable challenge to get the DBD:Oracle and DBI modules working with perl on my Redhat 7.3 system. Now that I have them working I can't quite seem to get the script to run correctly. I am running it against an Oracle 9i database that's on the same machine as Nagios - a test database. The script doesn't return any output to the command line. I have inserted print statements throughout the script (my perl skills are sadly lacking) and have found that it goes through the whole script EXCEPT for the block of code that follows: while (($tbname, $total, $used, $pct_used) = $sth->fetchrow) { $pct_used=int($pct_used); print STDOUT "size: " . $total . " MB Used:" . int($used) . " MB (" . int($pct_used) . "%)\n"; #print "table space $answer\n"; if ($pct_used > $alertpct) { if ($pct_used > $critpct) { $exit_code = 2 } else { $exit_code = 1; } } else { $exit_code = 0; } } I assume it is not executing this code because the condition of the while statement is false. My problem is I'm not good enough at troubleshooting perl to tell why this "while" statement is false. Especially in light of the interwoven Oracle stuff that's in the script. I also moved the following two lines above the "while" command: $pct_used=int($pct_used); print STDOUT "size: " . $total . " MB Used:" . int($used) . " MB (" . int($pct_used) . "%)\n"; and the screen output looks like this: size MB Used: 0 MB Any insight you have would be VERY GREATLY appreciated. I don't want to eat up a bunch of your time but I thought if you knew something I could try that comes to you quickly....you might enlighten me with it. Thnaks very much for you time! Ken Munson 972.371.4779 ken.munson@dalsemi.com </BODY> </HTML>