[snips-users] Re: hostmon debug errors

[Daniel MacKay <daniel at bonmot ca>]

yesterday, I wrote:

> Turning on debugging for hostmon reveals a few dozen lines of each 
> cycle that look like this:
>
> Error: unknown input data line syntax- IObw 0.3 %util sd0
> Error: unknown input data line syntax- IObw 0.0 %util sd1
> Error: unknown input data line syntax- IObw 0.0 %util sd30
> Error: unknown input data line syntax- IObw 0.0 %util nfs1
>
> Obviously it's something that hostmon-collector is putting into the 
> /tmp/hostmon_data/host.hostmon file, that hostmon then cannot read. 
> It's running on a Solaris 8 box.

I snooped through the code.  The problem is that "hostmon" is looking 
through the file using this:

      elsif ( /^\s*(\S+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\S+)(\s+(\S.*)?)?\s*$/ ) {
        ($curvar, $curvalue, $curunit, $comment) = ($1, $2, $3, $5);
        $comment = "" if (!defined ($comment));

and the first (\d+) is not built to handle numbers with decimal 
points (or negative values for that matter.)

The header for "hostmon" is:

# $Header: /cvsroot/snips/perl-monitors/hostmon,v 1.1 2001/09/24 15:32:22 vikas

As I said, I inherited this system; did the previous admin miss an 
upgrade somewhere?

Any tips welcome. Thanks. -dan
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Daniel MacKay
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