I fixed a few issues, but now it's hitting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ipa_replication", line 54, in <module>
if status.startswith('Error ('):
TypeError: startswith first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str

Would be nice to fix this before freeze, so we could have 2 less outstanding unknown nagios checks. :)