Nagios nrpe on Remote host

[Alloo, Vincent]

You should use:
define command{
        command_name    check_nrpe
        command_line    /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe  -H
$HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
        }

Notice the -H ...

Regards,

Vincent Alloo
TI France Design Systems Operations Manager
Europe and Middle East IT Services
Texas Instruments France

E-Mail: v-alloo at ti.com
Phone: +33 4 93 22 26 97
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Atul Kamat
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:57 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios nrpe on Remote host
> 
> 
> Hi!
>   I installed and configured nagios to monitor our servers and it took
me
> a whole day thanx to an error in the documentation.
>   I installed a utility called NRPE so that i cud execute commands on
> remote machine.i setup xinetd and installed the plugins on the remote
> host as well.Below are the excerpts of the:::
> 
> 
> services.cfg file:
> 
> define service{
> 	use				generic-service		; Name
of service
> template to use
> 
> 	host_name			nyx
> 	service_description		/dev/hda1 Free Space
> 	is_volatile			0
> 	check_period			24x7
> 	max_check_attempts		3
> 	normal_check_interval		5
> 	retry_check_interval		1
> 	contact_groups			linux-admins
> 	notification_interval		120
> 	notification_period		24x7
> 	notification_options		w,u,c,r
> 	check_command			check_nrpe!check_disk1
> 	}
> 
> 
> 
> checkcommands.cfg file::
> 
> define command{
>         command_name    check_nrpe
>         command_line    usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe
$HOSTADDRESS$
> -c $ARG1$
>         }
> 
> 
> nrpe.cfg file on the remote machine::
> #command i want to execute
> command[check_disk1]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 20 -c 10
-p
> /dev/hda1
> 
> could neone tell me what`s going wrong.
> Nagios display the disk space data of the local machine rather than
the
> remote machine.
> Thanx,
> Warm Regards
> 
> Atul Kamat
> Linux Network Engineer,
> World2Web Soft Technologies Private Ltd,
> 26, Koramangala Industrial Layout,
> Bangalore - 560095,
> INDIA
> Phone :98860 24705
> e-mail: atulk at world2web.com
> 
> 
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