Unable to make it work

[niutechmx]

Hi, I'm unable to see what i'm doing wrong with the installation but i'm unable to make it work. I test that "su -s bconsole nagios" is working ok after adding the user nagios to the bacula group.

I'm assuming that the script must run in the bacula director server, not in the nagios server.

This is the error I get, any help is apreciatted.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./check_bacula_client", line 98, in
main(sys.argv)
File "./check_bacula_client", line 59, in main
child.expect(r'\n*')
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pexpect.py", line 1311, in expect
return self.expect_list(compiled_pattern_list, timeout, searchwindowsize)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pexpect.py", line 1325, in expect_list
return self.expect_loop(searcher_re(pattern_list), timeout, searchwindowsize)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pexpect.py", line 1409, in expect_loop
raise TIMEOUT (str(e) + '\n' + str(self))
pexpect.TIMEOUT: Timeout exceeded in read_nonblocking().
<pexpect.spawn object at 0x7f91b3c21950>
version: 2.3 ($Revision: 399 $)
command: /usr/sbin/bconsole
args: ['/usr/sbin/bconsole', '-n']
searcher: searcher_re:
0: re.compile("\n*")
buffer (last 100 chars):
1000 OK: 1 bacula-dir Version: 7.0.5 (28 July 2014)
Enter a period to cancel a command.
*
before (last 100 chars):
1000 OK: 1 bacula-dir Version: 7.0.5 (28 July 2014)
Enter a period to cancel a command.
*
after: <class 'pexpect.TIMEOUT'>
match: None
match_index: None
exitstatus: None
flag_eof: False
pid: 30218
child_fd: 3
closed: False
timeout: 30
delimiter: <class 'pexpect.EOF'>
logfile: None
logfile_read: None
logfile_send: None
maxread: 2000
ignorecase: False
searchwindowsize: None
delaybeforesend: 0.05
delayafterclose: 0.1
delayafterterminate: 0.1

[twpayne]

(Sorry if the following is wrong, it's been over five years since I last ran this software)

It looks like nagios_plugin_bacula is timing out connecting to the Bacula director.

The Nagios plugin runs as the user nagios. Please can you check that the nagios user can run the Bacula director without using a password.

What does

# su -s /usr/sbin/bconsole nagios

output?

[twpayne]

(Another possibility is that the output from the bconsole program has changed since this software was written, in which case this software needs to be updated).

[niutechmx]

No problem twpayne, seems like the output of bconsole could have change since the program was written.
The user nagios can access bconsole without problem. I'll try to look at the source code to see if I can change anything. Thanks.