nrpe command line test question

[Aidan Anderson]

Maxwell,Brady wrote:
>
> My nrpe.cfg on the remote host contains these commands
>
> command[check_disk]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w $ARG1$ -c 
> $ARG2$ -p $ARG3$
>
> command[check_disk1]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 20 -c 10 
> -p /dev/vga/root
>
> running a check_nrpe from the command line has the following results.
>
> [root at nagios02 ~]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H hostname -c 
> check_disk –a 10 5 /dev/vga/root
>
> check_disk: Warning threshold must be integer or percentage!
>
> [root at nagios02 ~]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H hostname -c 
> check_disk1
>
> DISK OK - free space: / 801 MB (12% inode=81%);| 
> /=5625MB;6405;6415;80;6425
>
> I would like to be able to pass arguments to the remote system, 
> allowing me to set threshold values at the service level.
>
> Can anyone tell me why I get the error “Warning threshold must be 
> integer or percentage!” ?
>
> Or suggest another method of passing the args to the remote nrpe process?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brady
>
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Make sure that you set dont_blame_nrpe to 1 in nrpe.cfg to allow nrpe to 
accept client arguments. This is set to 0 by default as it is deemed a 
security risk

Aidan



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