check_oracle breaks when run under nrpe

[Frederik Vanhee]

Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I know that I should post this to nagiosplug-help solely and not
>x-post to nagios-users.
>But I see there's much more activity in the latter and thus I
>reckon a bigger chance for me to draw attention.
>
>I set up nrpe on remote hpux host that runs an Oracle dbms.
>
>When I execute the check_oracle shell script from the nagios
>plug-ins on that host like such
>everything works fine
>
>[nagios at terra:/usr/local/nagios/etc]
>$ ORACLE_HOME=/app/oracle/product/9.2.0
>PATH=/usr/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
>/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_oracle --tns FREMD
>
>OK - reply time 30 msec from FREMD
>
>
>Wheras when I run it through check_nrpe by this command
>definition in nrpe.cfg
>
>[nagios at terra:/usr/local/nagios/etc]
>$ grep ^command\\[check_tns nrpe.cfg
>command[check_tns_FREMD]='ORACLE_HOME=/app/oracle/product/9.2.0
>PATH=/usr/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
>/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_oracle --tns FREMD'
>
>
>this is happening
>
>[nagios at terra:/usr/local/nagios/etc]
>$ ../libexec/check_nrpe -H 127.0.0.1 -c check_tns_FREMD
>CHECK_NRPE: Response packet had invalid CRC32.
>
>[nagios at terra:/usr/local/nagios/etc]
>$ echo $?
>3
>
>
>Unfortunately nrpe or check_nrpe are of the silent sort,
>and thus nothing useful gets logged via syslogd
>
>[nagios at terra:/usr/local/nagios/etc]
>$ tail -1 /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
>Jul 19 09:31:02 terra inetd[22034]: nrpe/tcp: Connection from
>localhost (127.0.0.1) at Tue Jul 19 09:31:02 2005
>
>
>First how can I raise verbosity of nrpe to detect more?
>
>Then what could have gone wrong?
>
>
>Regards
>Ralph
>
>
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>
check your nrpe.cfg file :

debug=1 -> more logging
did you fill the allowed-hosts variable ?
do you use ssl, otherwise, you should use check_nrpe with the -n option

Frederik



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