Actually Mark I think you were on to something. I did have to add the third
argument variable onto that because some of the other checks DO have a third
argument, however after modifying my check to the one above, it worked fine.
Thanks for the help though dude.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Mark A. Lappin <ma...@lmfj.com> wrote:
> Jarred, I don’t know that I would consider myself as an expert in Nagios,
> but more of somebody who can definitely get myself into trouble with it.
>
>
>
> I think you need to remove ‘$ARG3$’ from the end of your command line
> directive. Your service’s check_command is not passing a 3rd parameter,
> and based on my understanding, you are then passing an argument string of ‘’
> which even though its blank, it sees a literal that it doesn’t know how to
> handle. I don’t have quotes in my Nagios config so maybe it does not like a
> blank string, its essentially seeing:
>
> …/check_nt -H 10.0.10.10 -p 12489 -v USEDDISKSPACE -l d ‘’
>
>
>
> command_line /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H '$HOSTADDRESS$'
> -p 12489 -v '$ARG1$' '$ARG2$' *'$ARG3$'*
>
>
>
> …and I don’t think it likes what is on the end is my suspicion.
>
>
>
> Try changing your debug mode in Nagios to have more verbose logging so you
> can see what exactly Nagios is executing and then you can diagnose your
> problem better to; you don’t want to leave this on for long because it
> generates a lot of information very very quickly. I usually use an
> alternative configuration if I need to do this that does not have a lot of
> my normal checks enabled.
>
>
>
> If you’re excluding warning and critical levels, make sure you know how the
> check is going to come back in all cases or force it OK using service
> tricks; it does have default levels.
>
>
>
> All of my disk space service checks are simply:
>
> check_command check_nt!USEDDISKSPACE!-l e -w 80 -c 90
>
>
>
> With the command setup as:
>
> define command{
>
> command_name check_nt
>
> command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 12489 -s
> mySuperSecretPasswordHere -v $ARG1$ $ARG2$
>
> }
>
>
>
> I use NSClient++ as well although the end-user client I don’t think it will
> make to much a difference until the check command will execute; how the
> client responds to the argument string is entirely different. I have a
> similar config to Keith on my machines which you can deploy and centrally
> manage through a GPO. I use allowed hosts and also passwords on the client.
>
>
>
> ML
>
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