[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#685457: Bug#685457: nsca: Incompatibility between munin and nsca-2.9.1

[Michael Friedrich]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#685457: nsca: Incompatibility between 
munin and nsca-2.9.1
From: Xiwen Cheng <xiwen.cheng at mendix.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Date: 2012-08-21 00:22
> Package: nsca
> Version: 2.9.1-2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> The input format generated by munin (2.0.1-1) is not accepted by
> `send_nsca` when multiple results are chained in a single stream. The
> input stream is parsed incorrectly because of the recent addition:
>
>> When submitting multiple simultaneous results, separate each set with
>> the ETB character (^W or 0x17)
> However munin isn't aware of this change.
>
> I don't see why this format change was introduced. It is not needed
> and it breaks compatibility.
> I strongly believe the format should be reverted such that munin 2 and
> earlier (probably other tools/systems also) remain compatible.
>
> An extremely dirty workaround is use `tr` to substitute all occurences
> of \n with ETB prior to sending to `send_nsca`:
>
>> /etc/munin/munin.conf
> contact.nagios.command tr '\n' '\27' | /usr/sbin/send_nsca
> nagios.host.example -c /etc/send_nsca.cfg

that change was introduced upstream, where you should put your request 
to change as well. try tracker.nagios.org or the nagios-devel mailinglist.

j2mc,
michael


>
> Kind regards,
> Xiwen
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>    APT prefers testing
>    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages nsca depends on:
> ii  confget                1.03-1
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.44
> ii  libc6                  2.13-33
> ii  libmcrypt4             2.5.8-3.1
> ii  nsca-client            2.9.1-2
>
> nsca recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages nsca suggests:
> ii  nagios-plugins-basic  1.4.16-1
> pn  nagios3               <none>
>
> -- debconf information excluded
>
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