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Figured out the issue, the ec2 api command wasn't picking up the environment. After adding: export PATH=$PATH:/opt/ec2-api-tools/bin export EC2_HOME=/opt/ec2-api-tools/ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=********************************** expor...

Yep, in the OP there are two code sections showing the output. The script is echoing the variables for debugging purposes. In the shell version all 4 variables contain values. In the Nagios web UI version there are empty variables such as $reserveddate. Because there is no value, the other calculate...

For sure: [root@linserver2 ~]# su - nagios -bash-4.1$ /opt/ec2-api-tools/bin/ec2-describe-reserved-instances | head -n 1 RESERVEDINSTANCES *************************************** us-east-1b m1.small Linux/UNIX 1y 227.5 0.03 1 2011-10-06T12:33:23+0000 retired USD default Medium Utilization -bash-4.1$...

Is it valid to test by:
#su - nagios
Then run the command? If so, the nagios user can run the command without issue, and can run my shell script without issue.

Hello all, I've created a basic script that grabs our AWS reserved instance dates and does a simple calculation to determine if the oldest instance will expire in the next 5 days. I can run the script from a shell without issue, but when Nagios runs it as a check some values are not populated: Scrip...