adjust cu() error messages, preventing duplicate tracebacks

check-plugins/borgbackup/borgbackup

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from lib.globals import (STATE_CRIT, STATE_OK,  # pylint: disable=C0413
                           STATE_UNKNOWN, STATE_WARN)
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = '''Checks the date and return code of the last borgbackup, according to the logfile.
 `cat /var/log/borg/borg-prune.log`
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ def main():
         endtime
         create_retc
         prune_retc
-    except UnboundLocalError as e:
-        lib.base.cu('Could not find all expected values in the logfile.\n{}'.format(e))
+    except UnboundLocalError:
+        lib.base.cu('Could not find all expected values in the logfile.')
 
     # We ignore retc 1, as it means operation reached its normal end, but there were warnings from borg.
     state = STATE_OK

check-plugins/countdown/countdown

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from lib.globals import (STATE_CRIT, STATE_OK,  # pylint: disable=C0413
                           STATE_UNKNOWN, STATE_WARN)
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = 'Warns before an expiration date is scheduled to occur.'
 
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ def main():
         # over and out
         lib.base.oao(msg, state, always_ok=args.ALWAYS_OK)
 
-    except Exception as e:
-        lib.base.cu('Something seems to be wrong with the input parameter format or its timestamps. The error was: {}'.format(e))
+    except Exception:
+        lib.base.cu('Something seems to be wrong with the input parameter format or its timestamps')
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':

check-plugins/cpu-usage/cpu-usage

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ except ImportError:
 
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = """Mainly provides utilization percentages for each specific CPU time. Takes a time
                 period into account: the cpu usage within a certain amount of time has to be equal
@@ -137,9 +137,9 @@ def main():
     # https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/issues/57: changed from 0.25 to 1.25
     try:
         cpu_times_percent = psutil.cpu_times_percent(interval=1.25, percpu=False)
-    except ValueError as e:
+    except ValueError:
         lib.db_sqlite.close(conn)
-        lib.base.cu('psutil raised error "{}"'.format(e))
+        lib.base.cu('psutil raised an error')
 
     # this is what we want to warn about: 100% - idle - nice
     stats['cpu_usage'] = round(

check-plugins/disk-io/disk-io

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ except ImportError as e:
 
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = """Checks disk IO."""
 
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ def main():
     try:
         disk_io_counters = psutil.disk_io_counters(perdisk=True)
     except ValueError as e:
-        lib.base.cu('psutil raised error "{}"'.format(e))
+        lib.base.cu('psutil raised an error')
 
     now = lib.time.now()
 

check-plugins/docker-stats/docker-stats

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from lib.globals import (STATE_CRIT, STATE_OK,  # pylint: disable=C0413
                           STATE_UNKNOWN, STATE_WARN)
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = """This check prints various statistics for all running Docker containers, in much the
                 same way as the Unix application top, using the "docker stats" command."""
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ def main():
             strpos2 = stdout.find('\n', strpos1)
             host_cpus = int(stdout[strpos1:strpos2])
         except:
-            lib.base.cu('{}'.format('Unable to compute docker info.'))
+            lib.base.cu('Unable to compute docker info')
 
         # get the container statistics for all running containers
         cmd = 'docker stats --no-stream'

check-plugins/fs-inodes/fs-inodes

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from lib.globals import (STATE_CRIT, STATE_OK,  # pylint: disable=C0413
                           STATE_UNKNOWN, STATE_WARN)
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071201'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = 'Checks the used inode space in percent, default on "/", "/tmp" and "/boot".'
 
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ def main():
             elif inodes_used >= args.WARN:
                 state = lib.base.get_worst(state, STATE_WARN)
                 msg = msg[:-2] + ' (WARN), '
-        except Exception as e:
-            lib.base.cu('Something seems to be wrong with the input parameter. The error was: {}'.format(e))
+        except Exception:
+            lib.base.cu('Something seems to be wrong with the input parameter')
 
     # over and out
     lib.base.oao(msg[:-2], state, perfdata, always_ok=args.ALWAYS_OK)

check-plugins/matomo-reporting/matomo-reporting

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from lib.globals import (STATE_CRIT, STATE_OK,  # pylint: disable=C0413
                           STATE_UNKNOWN, STATE_WARN)
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = """This plugin lets you check the most common analytics values from Matomo, for one
                  or several websites and for any given date and period."""
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ def main():
     url = args.URL + ('/' if not args.URL.endswith('/') else '') + 'index.php?method=API.get&idSite={}&period={}&date={}&module=API&token_auth={}&format=json&filter_limit=1'.format(args.IDSITE, args.PERIOD, args.DATE, args.PASSWORD)
     result = lib.base.coe(lib.url.fetch_json(url, insecure=args.INSECURE, no_proxy=args.NO_PROXY, timeout=args.TIMEOUT))
     if 'result' in result and result['result'] == 'error':
-        lib.base.cu('{}'.format(result['message']))
+        lib.base.cu(result['message'])
 
     # init some vars
     msg = ''

check-plugins/network-io/network-io

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ except ImportError as e:
 
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = """Checks network IO."""
 
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ def main():
     # get interface data and store it to database
     try:
         net_io_counters = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True, nowrap=True)
-    except ValueError as e:
-        lib.base.cu('psutil raised error "{}"'.format(e))
+    except ValueError:
+        lib.base.cu('psutil raised an error')
 
     now = lib.time.now()
 

check-plugins/openstack-nova-list/openstack-nova-list

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ except ImportError:
 
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071202'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = """Nova is the OpenStack project that provides a way to provision compute
                  instances (aka virtual servers).
@@ -210,11 +210,11 @@ def main():
     try:
         nova = client.Client(2, session=session.Session(auth=auth))  # NOVA_API_VERSION=2
     except Exception as e:
-        lib.base.cu(e.message)
+        lib.base.cu('An error occurred while connecting to Nova')
     try:
         servers = nova.servers.list()
     except Exception as e:
-        lib.base.cu(e.message)
+        lib.base.cu('An error occurred while getting the server list from Nova')
 
     # init some vars
     msg = ''

check-plugins/pip-updates/pip-updates

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from lib.globals import (STATE_CRIT, STATE_OK,  # pylint: disable=C0413
                           STATE_UNKNOWN, STATE_WARN)
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = """Checks if there are outdated Python packages, installed via `pip`."""
 
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ def main():
     try:
         packages = json.loads(stdout)
     except:
-        return lib.base.cu('ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded')
+        return lib.base.cu('Failed to parse JSON.')
 
     # init some vars
     if args.VIRTUALENV:

check-plugins/restic-snapshots/restic-snapshots

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from lib.globals import (STATE_CRIT, STATE_OK,  # pylint: disable=C0413
                           STATE_UNKNOWN, STATE_WARN)
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = """Check the age of the newest restic repository snapshot."""
 
@@ -247,8 +247,8 @@ def main():
 
     try:
         snapshots = json.loads(stdout)
-    except ValueError as e:
-        lib.base.cu('ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded')
+    except ValueError:
+        lib.base.cu('No JSON object could be decoded.')
 
     # init some vars
     msg = ''

check-plugins/restic-stats/restic-stats

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import lib.test  # pylint: disable=C0413
 from lib.globals import STATE_OK, STATE_UNKNOWN  # pylint: disable=C0413
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071201'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = """Walk multiple snapshots in a repository and accumulate statistics about the data
                  stored therein. It reports on the number of unique files and their sizes,
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ def main():
 
     try:
         stats = json.loads(stdout)
-    except ValueError as e:
-        lib.base.cu('ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded')
+    except ValueError:
+        lib.base.cu('No JSON object could be decoded.')
 
     # init some vars
     state = STATE_OK

check-plugins/strongswan-connections/strongswan-connections

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ except ImportError:
 
 
 __author__ = 'Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland'
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 DESCRIPTION = """This Nagios/Icinga monitoring plugin checks IPSec connection states. It connects
                  to the vici plugin in libcharon using the Versatile IKE Control Interface (VICI)
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ def main():
         s = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX)
         try:
             s.connect(args.SOCKET)
-        except Exception as e:
-            lib.base.cu('{}'.format(e))
+        except Exception:
+            lib.base.cu('Failed to connect to the VICI Socket.')
         session = vici.Session(s)
         possible_connection_keys = get_possible_connection_keys(session)
         active_connection_keys = get_active_connection_keys(session)

check-plugins/xml/xml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from lib.globals import (STATE_OK, STATE_UNKNOWN,  # pylint: disable=C0413
 __author__ = """Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich/Switzerland;
                 originally written by Simon Wunderlin,
                 adapted by Dominik Riva, Universitätsspital Basel/Switzerland"""
-__version__ = '2023071203'
+__version__ = '2023071301'
 
 
 DESCRIPTION = """This plugin checks for a matching string in a XML document, fetched via http(s).
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ def main():
     # analyze data
     try:
         doc = ET.fromstring(lib.txt.to_bytes(result))
-    except Exception as e:
-        lib.base.cu('XML parse error "{}".'.format(e))
+    except Exception:
+        lib.base.cu('Failed to parse XML.')
 
     # https://lxml.de/xpathxslt.html
     if args.NAMESPACES:
@@ -164,13 +164,13 @@ def main():
                 lib.base.cu('Wrong namespace mapping syntax for "{}".'.format(ns))
         try:
             r = doc.xpath(args.XPATH, namespaces=namespaces)
-        except Exception as e:
-            lib.base.cu('XML xpath error "{}".'.format(e))
+        except Exception:
+            lib.base.cu('An XML xpath error occurred.')
     else:
         try:
             r = doc.xpath(args.XPATH)
-        except Exception as e:
-            lib.base.cu('XML xpath error "{}".'.format(e))
+        except Exception:
+            lib.base.cu('An XML xpath error occurred.')
 
     # over and out
     if args.EXPECT is None: