AW: Sending $HOSTADDRESS$ or other to NRPE

[Thomas.Zimmer at oppenheim.de]

Check_printer is not a plugin, this is only a virtual name for your
"check_ping" over NRPE.
See the nagios help for the "out of bounds" error:
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=17 It seems that either the
plugin "check_nrpe" does not exist on the nagiosserver, or the plugin
"check_ping" does not exist on the client. Perhaps the pathnames
(/usr/lib/nagios/plugin/check_nrpe,/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping) are
not correct?

The check_command to use for the service must be: 
[...]
         check_command                   check_printer
[...]
As this is the name of your checkcommand. No args needed, the Hostaddress is
set by Nagios, if you declared it within the host-definition. Did you?
Otherwise you should use the $HOSTNAME$ macro or amend the ip-address.

Greetz,
Thomas Zimmer
Produktservice & Betrieb
Betrieb & Support
Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie., Frankfurt a. Main
Telefon: +49 69 7134 5192
Internet: http://www.oppenheim.de
E-Mail: thomas.zimmer at oppenheim.de



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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] Im Auftrag von Henrik
Morsing
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. Dezember 2005 12:13
An: Zimmer, Thomas (BB) Frankfurt/M.
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Betreff: Re: [Nagios-users] Sending $HOSTADDRESS$ or other to NRPE




On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Thomas.Zimmer at oppenheim.de wrote:

> Has your printer host-def. An IP-address assigned?
> What is the output of the service-check?
> Did you try to write the output of the check_printer command to a 
> file? Is there an IP-address? You should set the passed args for the 
> nrpe-command into "", like this: define command {
>         command_name    check_printer
>         command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugin/check_nrpe -H kg -c
> check_printer -a "$HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$ $ARG2$"
>         }
> But this should not be the problem in your config, I think...
>

Thanks for this. Looking at it again this morning I realised that the
correct line in services.cfg should have been:

           check_command                   check_nrpe!check_printer

This has brought me a step forward. Also the hostname in the hosts.cfg
should be as seen by the server running NRPE at the other end. Now the
problem is this message from the log:

[1135854406] Warning: Return code of 127 for check of service 'KG-Printer'
on host 'printer' was out of bounds. Make sure the plugin you're trying to
run actually exists.

It doesn't exist!. check_printer is not a plugin but defined in
checkcommand.cfg. How do I get Nagios to understand this?

Thanks


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