Cedric Jeanneret wrote: > Hello, > > We'd like to use nagios.cmd pipe to send some signals. According to the > examples in documentation, we can do a simple thing like that : > > /bin/printf "[%lu] ACKNOWLEDGE_HOST_PROBLEM;host1;1;1;1;Some One;Some > Acknowledgement Comment\n" $now > $commandfile > > The problem is, it seems it's not taken in account - no log in nagios.log, no > message is printed in shell, and more over nagios doesn't seem to do anything. > > I tested with an error inside the command, and it seems to be parsed: > [1273156151] Warning: Unrecognized external command -> > SCHEDULE_HOST_SVC_CHECKs;fqdn;1273156151 > > but nothing else happens. > > Is there a way to be sure that nagios do what we ask? > > The main thing is: > - we're using NSCA plugin so that we have about 80 servers with their own > nagios, sending results and status to a single host > - we tried to run this command only on remote hosts - maybe we have to use it > on the nsca server ? > > Any help is welcome. > > Thank you in advance ! > > Best regards, > > C. > > Enable the nagios debug ( see bottom of nagios.cfg file ) and test again what you insert . Although the nagios debug file fills up and grows quite fast so you need to make sure to have sufficient space to have the input you want .
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