Package: nagios3 Version: 3.0.6-4~lenny2 Severity: important When a passive check is sent by a remote/distributed server via nsca the return_code is in the form of a string i.e. "OK/WARNING/CRITICAL/UNKNOWN" but this results in the central nagios monitoring server always interpreting the return_code as "OK" in the nagios web interface, even when it is not (although the plugin output data/'Status Information' details are correctly shown in the nagios web-interface). As a result, no notifications are issued when a passive check returns a warning, failure or unknown status.
The cause of this problem seems to be that the passive check return_code should be an integer, with values of "0/1/2/3", corresponding to the "OK/WARNING/CRITICAL/UNKNOWN" string values that are actually sent. Using an amended version of the SUBMIT_CHECK_RESULT_VIA_NSCA bash shell script, which substitutes the appropriate integer value for the supplied string (and which is invoked to execute the [/usr/sbin/]send_nsca command that transmits the passive check data to the central monitoring server) results in the correct 'Status' being displayed in the central nagios web interface and the corresponding notifications being issued. The underlying cause of the problem seems to be inconsistancy between the use of integer and string return_codes deeper within the nagios logic i.e. the passive check return_code should be supplied to the SUBMIT_CHECK_RESULT_VIA_NSCA script as an integer and not as a string. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.7 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages nagios3 depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18lenny6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgd2-xpm 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3+lenny1 GD Graphics Library version 2 ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libperl5.10 5.10.0-19lenny2 Shared Perl library ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-2+lenny4 PNG library - runtime ii nagios3-common 3.0.6-4~lenny2 support files for nagios3 ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime nagios3 recommends no packages. Versions of packages nagios3 suggests: ii nagios-nrpe-plugin 2.12-1 Nagios Remote Plugin Executor Plug -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
