[Perfparse-users] CGI Problem?

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Sorry but the URL's were wrong in my previous post and I added a bit
more info, it should have read

>>> Glen Kelly 14/10/2005 10:58 am >>>
Whenever I try to view a graph I get the follow error reported in
Internet Explorer.

The URL for the page is
http://gabar/nagios/cgi-bin/perfparse.cgi?graph=1&&metric=%2Fvar

"Line: 7
Char: 3
Error: 'document.graph.timerange' is null or not an object
Code: 0
URL: http//gabar/nagios/cgi-bin/perfparse.cgi?graph=1&&metric=load1"

Not sure if that error is complete, unfortunately that is all of the
error I can see in the window.

The source of the page it is trying to display is

"<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
PerfParse</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
function isAbsRelVisible() {
  if (document.graph.timerange[1].checked) showAbsolute();
  else showRelative();
}
function showAbsolute() {
   Abs1.style.visibility="visible";
   Abs2.style.visibility="visible";
   Abs3.style.visibility="visible";
   Abs4.style.visibility="visible";
   Rel1.style.visibility="hidden";
   Rel2.style.visibility="hidden";
   Rel3.style.visibility="hidden";
   Rel4.style.visibility="hidden";
}
function showRelative() {
   Abs1.style.visibility="hidden";
   Abs2.style.visibility="hidden";
   Abs3.style.visibility="hidden";
   Abs4.style.visibility="hidden";
   Rel1.style.visibility="visible";
   Rel2.style.visibility="visible";
   Rel3.style.visibility="visible";
   Rel4.style.visibility="visible";
}
</SCRIPT>
<BODY BGcolor="#EEFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#000000" VLINK="#000000"
ALINK="#000000" onload="isAbsRelVisible()">
"

From playing around it does not seem to be correctly passing parameters
between scripts

i.e. It is generating URL's like this
http://gabar/nagios/cgi-bin/perfparse.cgi?graph=1&&metric=%2Fvar
or
http://gabar/nagios/cgi-bin/perfparse.cgi?select_metric=1&host_name=%2E

I am sure it is because
1 - we are using "." is the hostname i.e. gabar.pacit.tas.gov.au
2 - for plugin's like check_disk the binary data contains a "/"
character
i.e.
[root@gabar nrpe]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 10% -c 5% -p
/var
DISK OK - free space: /var 3491 MB (88%);| /var=475MB;3569;3767;0;3966

This is a URL that works (I made a host called test)
http://gabar/nagios/cgi-bin/perfparse.cgi?graph=1&host=test&service=CPULoad&metric=load1
if I change the URL for a host that does not work i.e.
http://gabar/nagios/cgi-bin/perfparse.cgi?graph=1&host=gabar.pacit.tas.gov.au&service=CPULoad&metric=load1
then this works as well, as does this
http://gabar/nagios/cgi-bin/perfparse.cgi?graph=1&host=test&service=disk_var&metric=/var

Perfparse does not seem to be able to generate URL's containing a "."
or a "/" character.

Any ideas on how to fix?

Just about to try altering the illegal characters in perfparse.cfg to
see if that helps.

Glen