Re: [Nagios-devel] NRPE suggestions

[Andreas E. <ae...@op...>]

Jason Martin wrote:
> May I suggest that NRPE return a message to check_nrpe when validate_request
> fails?  When check_nrpe says "0 bytes receieved from daemon" it is rather
> unclear why the failure occured. If NRPE returned a status-unknown message
> indicating that the request was invalid that would be great.
> 
> Even better would be a description of why the request failed. Unpopulated
> arguments,illegal metacharacters, and arguments-provided-but-not-allowed
> all seem like they deserve a message sent back to the host w/UNKNOWN severity.
> This would make troubleshooting easier (the Nagios admin doesn't always have
>  login rights to the monitored machine) as well as make it more 
friendly for
> users who aren't intimately familiar with Nagios but have the rights to
> specify command arguments.
> 
> It would also be nice if output to STDERR didn't cause a 'failed CRC check'
> error.
> 
> Does this sound good? If so I may be able to provide a patch that handles
> most/all of this in several days.
> 

Points taken. If you want to patch it to work the way you think it 
should, just send me a personal email and I'll get back to you with the 
latest NRPE source-code (it differs quite a bit from the 2.0 one).

> Thank you,
> -Jason Martin
> 

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