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Bug #13866

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Invalid json in Rudder inventory hooks fails to log the problem

Added by François ARMAND about 6 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:
Released
Priority:
N/A
Category:
Web - Nodes & inventories
Target version:
Severity:
Major - prevents use of part of Rudder | no simple workaround
UX impact:
User visibility:
Operational - other Techniques | Rudder settings | Plugins
Effort required:
Priority:
74
Name check:
Reviewed
Fix check:
Checked
Regression:

Description

We have an agent where an inventory hook is configured. The hook does not work, but there is no obvious message about the problem and we are not able to understand why.

The error does appear with "-i", but the provided information are not sufficient to understand what the problem is because we don't have the corresponding JSON file:

rudder     info: Executing 'no timeout' ... '/opt/rudder/bin/run-inventory --local=/var/rudder/tmp/inventory/agent1-a5cedc3c-fc2c-4937-9d31-c072883b1ad3.ocs'
  notice: Q: "...-inventory --lo": [info] FusionInventory instance: builtin - Perl instance: system
Q: "...-inventory --lo": [info] running task Inventory
Q: "...-inventory --lo": [error] Script /var/rudder/hooks.d/mount.sh didn't return valid JSON entry, error is:malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 25 (before "] }\n") at /opt/rudder/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/Task/Inventory/Generic/Rudder.pm line 125.
Q: "...-inventory --lo": [info] Inventory saved in /var/rudder/tmp/inventory/agent1-a5cedc3c-fc2c-4937-9d31-c072883b1ad3.ocs

=> perhaps we should have a log info or something for each inventory hook with a problem so that people can find easely that it was ignored by design
=> when an inventory hook has a problem, the corresponding JSON should be put somewhere so that the user can try to understand what goes wrong in his script.

Workaround for the second point: change file /opt/rudder/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/Task/Inventory/Generic/Rudder.pm around line 125 like that:

if ($@) {
  $logger->error("Script $script_file didn't return valid JSON entry, error is:$@") if $logger;
  # add that line
  $logger->error("JSON in error is: $properties") if $logger;
}
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