General MongoDB Error: name must be an instance of basestring

[solarisfire]

Running the following command:

/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_mongodb.py -H mongo-2 -P 10000 -D -A replication_lag_percent -u *** -p *** -W 50 -C 75

Returns:
CRITICAL - General MongoDB Error: name must be an instance of basestring

[solarisfire]

This doesn't happen when run against a primary, which returns: "OK - This is the primary.", but only against a secondary node.

[merlyel]

Confirming this one
The problem happens in here:

if percent:
     err, con = mongo_connect(primary_node['name'].split(':')[0], int(primary_node['name'].split(':')[1]), False, user, passwd)

[bvogel1509]

Hi,

I have the same issue but as i'm running mongodb 3.0, the problem happens here :

if percent: err, con = mongo_connect(primary_node['name'].split(':')[0], int(primary_node['name'].split(':')[1]), ssl, user, passwd, None, None, insecure, ssl_ca_cert_file, cert_file)

None, None means replicaset=None, authdb=None. This is not valid as you must supply a valid database name to authenticate.

A correct call is :

if percent: err, con = mongo_connect(primary_node['name'].split(':')[0], int(primary_node['name'].split(':')[1]), ssl, user, passwd, replica, authdb, insecure, ssl_ca_cert_file, cert_file)

but you have to change the prototype of function check_rep_lag

def check_rep_lag(con, host, port, warning, critical, percent, perf_data, max_lag, user, passwd, ssl=None, insecure=None, ssl_ca_cert_file=None, cert_file=None)

with

def check_rep_lag(con, host, port, warning, critical, percent, perf_data, max_lag, user, passwd, replica=None, authdb="admin", ssl=None, insecure=None, ssl_ca_cert_file=None, cert_file=None)

Hope this help

[dbuelow]

Same issue.
this is really a great script, but it looks like there is no further development here?

[kagahd]

I've created a pull request which solves this issue. See #245

[akhmolina]

I have the same.
Realy need this small fix!