<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content=Word.Document name=ProgId> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Microsoft Word 10" name=Originator><LINK href="cid:filelist.xml@01C4FA64.4495AD30" rel=File-List><o:SmartTagType name="date" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType> <STYLE>@font-face { font-family: SimSun; } @font-face { font-family: @SimSun; } @page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin: .5in; mso-footer-margin: .5in; mso-paper-source: 0; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } SPAN.EmailStyle17 { COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-style-type: personal-compose; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-ansi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial } SPAN.SpellE { mso-style-name: ""; mso-spl-e: yes } SPAN.GramE { mso-style-name: ""; mso-gram-e: yes } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } OL { MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in } UL { MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US style="tab-interval: .5in" vLink=purple link=blue> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Tom,</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>I not sure if you have gotten any feedback on your problem/question, but try doing "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk --help"; this will maybe show you where you may be going wrong. Also what does your "check_command" in the service definition look like for checking /var on hosta in your services.cfg file and then verify that command name in your checkcommands.cfg file.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>If I'm reading your email correctly it appears that you have hard coded the "80 90 /var" into the nrpe.cfg file in hosta, usually these are arguments that are passed to it so that the same command can be used for other filesystems (/opt, /usr, etc.). </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Usage: check_disk -w limit -c limit [-p path]</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>The "limit" can be either in kilobytes or in percentage (%). So if you want Warning at 80% full and Critical at 90% full the command would look like:</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>check_disk -w 20% -c 10% -p /var</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>I hope some of this helps.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Rudy</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: nagiosplug-help-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagiosplug-help-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Tom Luong Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 8:09 PM To: 'nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] odd nrpe and check_disk issue </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=Section1> Hello,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I have a really odd one here. I can't get the status of a check_disk from a remote host. The commands seem to work with I run them manually but Nagios can't seem to make out that response from the remote host.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Facts:<o:p></o:p> <OL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=1> <LI class=MsoNormal style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">I can manually run check_disk on my client box(hosta) to get an answer <o:p></o:p></LI></OL> [root@hosta]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk 80 90 /var<o:p></o:p> DISK OK - [6142028 kB (73%) free on /dev/sdb1]<o:p></o:p> <OL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=1 start=2> <LI class=MsoNormal style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">manually run check_nrpe on my Nagios server(hostb) as Nagios user and successfully retrieve a responsys from hosta <o:p></o:p></LI></OL> [nagios@hostb]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe hosta -c check_disk1<o:p></o:p> DISK OK [4490880 kB (53%) free on /dev/sdb1]<o:p></o:p> <OL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=1 start=3> <LI class=MsoNormal style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">both my check_nrpe and nrpe are:<o:p></o:p> </LI></OL> Version: 1.5<o:p></o:p> Last Modified: <st1:date style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 Year="2002" Day="3" Month="6">06-03-2002</st1:date><o:p></o:p> License: GPL<o:p></o:p> <OL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=1 start=4> <LI class=MsoNormal style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">command in my nrpe.cfg: command[check_disk1]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk 80 90 /var<o:p></o:p> </LI></OL> <o:p> </o:p> Issue:<o:p></o:p> <OL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=1> <LI class=MsoNormal style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in">Nagios Service Details page shows "Unable to read output"<o:p></o:p> <LI class=MsoNormal style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in">I want Nagios to be able to check disk space on the remote hosts<o:p></o:p> </LI></OL> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> What I have done so far to try to resolve this without success:<o:p></o:p> <OL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=1> <LI class=MsoNormal style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in">I have tried changing the syntax of the check_disk command to <o:p></o:p></LI></OL> command[check_disk1]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 20 -c 10 -p /var<o:p></o:p> <OL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=1 start=2> <LI class=MsoNormal style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in">check permission of user on server and remote host running check_nrpe and nrpe<o:p></o:p> </LI></OL> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Has anymore experience with this? <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks in advance for your help.<o:p></o:p> Tom<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></DIV></BODY></HTML>