[NSClient++] Topic #424 - send some performance data

Topic #424 - send some performance data

dinesh707 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:39:15 GMT

I need to send some performance data back to the nagios.

Currently im monitoring a system using those External Scripts, but what i only get is status and some other details

Can you please give me a sample of a .bat file which sends back performance data as well.

And i need to know the format of performance data. (If there is any specific way)

BR,

Reply #1324 to topic #424 - send some performance data

dinesh707 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:37:37 GMT

Thank you MickeM

now it works fine

Reply #1323 to topic #424 - send some performance data

mickem — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:52:45 GMT

That will give you "":s though which you probably dont want and on NT based windows there are ways around it: http://ss64.com/nt/echo.html

Like so:

C:\>echo foo^|bar
foo|bar

MickeM

Reply #1322 to topic #424 - send some performance data

mickem — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:48:21 GMT

ohh...

The | char is a command so you need to escape it like so:

C:\>echo foo|bar
bar är inte ett internt kommando, externt kommando,
program eller kommandofil.
C:\>echo "foo|bar"
"foo|bar"

MickeM

Reply #1321 to topic #424 - send some performance data

dinesh707 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:07:25 GMT

The error code inside the NSClient++ is

error:modules\CheckExternalScripts\CheckExternalScripts.cpp:141: The command (scripts\fi.oulu.ubilife.rm.core.NFCReader.bat) returned an invalid return code: 255

Reply #1320 to topic #424 - send some performance data

dinesh707 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:04:08 GMT

I tried in the same way. And i checked it in the nagios plugins as well.

But when ever i add the grep symbol to that line it starts giving this error in the nagios. And the status of it changers to UNKNOWN as well. Status Information:'perfdata' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Can you please give a try on this and check an possible way to do this.

Thank you

Reply #1318 to topic #424 - send some performance data

mickem — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:55:29 GMT

Can fix that later on, but in essence, the preformance data is passed "as is" so check how it looks for another command.

In short though:

echo <string>|<performance data>
exit <code>

<performance data> is along the following lines (dont recall from the top of my head so this is "aproximation"): <key>=<value>;<warn>;<crit;<max>;<min>;

so:

echo OK We are all good|perfdata=34;10;12;100;0
exit 0

But again, I dont recall the exact syntax so check the nagios docs or a command...

Michael Medin