[Nagiosplug-help] Null Returns from a check_nt call that works from command line, but not from .cfg???

[Robertson, Brown]

Thanks to everyone who emailed me about this issue. It is finally working, but it is very odd how it worked. I edited my commandchecks.cfg in emacs instead of openoffice with exactly the same line and now it seems to work. When I open it in openoffice the line looks exactly the same. I have no idea why this is the case, I suppose it's possible that I made a mistake but I'm pretty obsessive compulsive with re-checking these things. Thanks for all the help though. 

-----Original Message-----
From:	Andreas Baetz [mailto:andreas.baetz at herma.de]
Sent:	Tue 12/3/2002 12:36 AM
To:	Robertson, Brown; nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
Cc:	
Subject:	Re: [Nagiosplug-help] Null Returns from a check_nt call that works from command line, but not from .cfg???
On Monday 02 December 2002 16:06, Robertson, Brown wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Robertson, Brown
> Sent:	Mon 12/2/2002 9:03 AM
> To:	nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc:
> Subject:	Null Returns from a check_nt call that works from command line,
> but not from .cfg??? Need some brainstorming if you guys can see anything
> wrong with my config. I only have this problem when I'm using check_nt for
> counter monitoring on NT servers. Basically, I can get accurate integer
> returns when I type in the check_nt command manually from a command line
> for a specific server, but when I use the .cfg I get a "0" value in Nagios.
> Any ideas?  Here's my check command:
>
> # 'check_nt_sql_userconnections' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check_nt_sql_userconnections
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v
> COUNTER -l "\\SQLServer:General Statistics\\User Connections",
> "User Connections: %.f " -w 80 -c 90

some thoughts:
- Are you sure $HOSTADDRESS$ points to the right server ?
- did you try the command without formatting the output ?
- did you try to insert the same command (without variables) that you
 used from the commandline into the configfile ?

Andreas


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