nrpe and NetBackup Plugin

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Thu Oct 20 10:32:10 CEST 2005


Tao Yaoning wrote:
> Hi, all
> 
> I use Netbackup 5.1 to backup my server. Now I want to use Nagios to monitor
> my Netbackup server. I download netbackup plugin and configure the nrpe
> service in netbackup server, configure check_nrpe on nagios machine.
> 
> I can use check_nrpe to monitor Netbackup server's disk space. But when I
> use check_nrpe to communicate netbackup plugins, it always tell me that they
> get error data from daemon. In fact, the netbackup plugin has standard
> output,

Does it still look like that if you run the command as the nrpe user and 
pipes stderr to /dev/null?

> but my nagios couldn't get these standard output. When I use strace
> to debug, I find on nagios machine it read (3, "\0" ). The netbackup plugin
> use perl script and use print function to print the standard output.
> 
> Any body has any ideas?
> 

Permission issues. I'm sure you tried the command on the remote server, 
but as root.

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