[Nagiosplug-help] How must I define this in checkcommands.cfg and services.cfg?

[Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de]

Curt,

I knew that the purpose of the echo trick was not to get sudden
OK statii of my checks,
but to aid in debugging.

And that's what it did indeed.
Your hint was extremly valuable as it helped me detecting my
malconfiguration and cleaning things up.

Now I'm happy since my VCS checks all work as I had hoped for.

The echoed check_nrpe invocation line in the status field of the
services' detailed report
led me to change my check command definition now to this


define command {
    command_name        check-nemesis-sg-online
    command_line        $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c
check_vcs_sg\!$HOSTNAME$\!nemesis
}


This now looks so rediculously simple that I really ask myself
how I could have been so terribly mistaken.


I really hope the list moderators have enabled your account by
now

Ralph


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt Shaffer [mailto:cshaffer at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 2:15 PM
> To: Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-help] How must I define this in
> checkcommands.cfg and services.cfg?
> 
> 
> It will return OK but the purpose is just to see what is 
> being sent by the
> plugin to make sure all arguments, variables ...etc are 
> exactly how you want
> them. 
> 
> I have found this to be of tremendous help in troubleshooting.
But
> unfortunately it is not helping in my problem ;( If you ever 
> come across
> info on how to have 1 box running NRPE on the network to 
> "proxy" the checks
> for the other devices, please let me know!
> 
> 
> Good Luck
> 
> Curt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de 
> [mailto:Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:04 AM
> To: cshaffer at gmail.com
> Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-help] How must I define this in 
> checkcommands.cfg
> and services.cfg?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curt Shaffer [mailto:cshaffer at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 1:20 PM
> > To: Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> > Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-help] How must I define this in
> > checkcommands.cfg and services.cfg?
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry,
> > 
> > It will show up in your service details, host details etc. or

> > whatever you
> > told to use that command.
> 
> 
> Yeah, it shows up in the Status Information field of the
> service's detailed view.
> 
> But since by prefixing the echo to check-nrpe the formerly
failed
> checks now returned OK
> Thus I even got the below kind of RECOVERY mails sent.
> 
> 
> 
> ***** Nagios  *****
> 
> Notification Type: RECOVERY
> 
> Service: nemesis-sg-online
> Host: EVO VCS SG EVO3
> Address: 10.22.120.15
> State: OK
> 
> Date/Time: Wed Aug 3 13:53:07 MES 2005
> 
> Additional Info:
> 
> /opt/sw/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 10.22.120.15 -c
check_vcs_sg
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Well, from this output I can clearly see that the macros $ARG2$
> and $ARG3$ either didn't get defined or not passed to
check_nrpe.
> No wonder that the remote nrpe didn't accept it as valid input.
> 
> Now I know where to continue my search.
> 
> Many thanks for showing me the trick.
> 
> 
>  
>