SOLVED: nsclient++ and nrpe commands

[Mies, Christian]

It was an issue in NSC.INI on my Client.
 
thanks for support!

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	Von: Steve Shipway [mailto:s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz] 
	Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007 23:17
	An: Mies, Christian
	Cc: nagios-users
	Betreff: RE: [Nagios-users] nsclient++ and nrpe commands
	
	
	I believe that the 'Illegal metacharacter' error message is generated because your command contains a '>' character, which could potentially be someone trying to use shell redirect to break in to your machine.
	 
	You will definitely need to escape or quote the > to prevent the shell interpreting it.
	 
	I don't know if this error is being produced by check_nrpe, by nsclient++, or by Nagios itself.  Certainly on our system, Nagios 1.4 does not check commands for illegal characters, and check_nrpe 2.5.2 does not either, so my guess is that nsclient++ is doing it.  Make sure you have your parameters quoted and check nsclient++ for definitions of illegal characters...
	 
	Steve

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		From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mies, Christian
		Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:36 a.m.
		To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
		Subject: [Nagios-users] nsclient++ and nrpe commands
		
		
		Hi,
		I'm trying to use nsclient++ on Windows Machines. Everything is working fine, instead of check_nrpe with checkEventLog :-(
		If I type:
		./check_nrpe -H 172.16.101.13 -p 5666 -c checkeventlog -a file=System filter=in filter=all truncate=512 MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=1 filter-eventType==info filter-generated=>10m
		 
		on my shell, I get no output. If I try ./check_nrpe -H 172.16.101.13 -p 5666 -c checkeventlog -a file=System filter=in filter=all truncate=512 MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=1 filter-eventType==info filter-generated=\>10m I'll get a error :Illegal Meta Character. Any ideas to this?
		Who is using nsclient++ with Eventlog Functionallity?
		 
		regards

		Christian Mies 

		 

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