Problem with Nagios && NRPE solved!

[Clemens Sibon]

Hi all,

I got the solution to my problem within 20 minutes (thans again Janet)!
The IP address in the config file was wrong and the command line tool
uses the hostname so I was checking two different servers!

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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,

Clemens Sibon

Triple IT
Pettemerstraat 12a
1823 CW Alkmaar

Tel: +31 (0)72 5129516
Fax: +31 (0)72 5129520
Email: c.sibon at triple-it.nl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Clemens Sibon
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 18:07
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Problem with Nagios && NRPE
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> After 3 days of frustrated debugging, I turn to the 
> mailinglist because I don't get it anymore..
> 
> I successfully installed Nagios (first 3.0.3b, later tried the latest
> 2.9 release), nagios-plugins 1.4.9 and nrpe 2.8.1 (with SSL).
> 
> My problem is that I can successfully check all the remote 
> commands I have defined on the remote server in nrpe.cfg from 
> the commandline (check_nrpe -H selene -c check_usr for example).
> 
> Problem is that the results returned and showed in the 
> website for this checks don't match.
> 
> [root at sansha libexec]# ./check_nrpe -H selene -c check_usr 
> DISK OK - free space: /usr 4467 MB (81% inode=97%);|
> /usr=1029MB;5216;5506;0;5796
> 
> and in the webpage it states:
> 
> DISK OK - free space: /usr 4588 MB (83% inode=97%): 
> 
> The difference is not too big but I can't explain it (not a 
> factor 1.024 for example).
> The check for the number of users is totally off, showing 1 
> even when 5 are logged in.
> 
> Besides this problem, I have also defined some other checks, 
> for example
> check_pmon:
> 
> command[check_pmon]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_oracle --db orcl
> 
> When I check this one from the monitoring server on the console I get:
> 
> [root at sansha libexec]# ./check_nrpe -H selene -c check_pmon 
> orcl OK - 1 PMON process(es) running
> 
> Looks fine, but what does the website show me?
> 
> NRPE: Command 'check_pmon' not defined 
> 
> Same happens with some checks I made for specific partitions 
> like /opt/oracle and /opt/oracle/oradata....
> 
> I tried running nrpe with 'debug=1' but it doesn't provide 
> any usefull info in syslog:
> 
> Sep 20 18:01:18 selene xinetd[8511]: START: nrpe pid=15307
> from=192.168.15.5
> Sep 20 18:01:18 selene nrpe[15307]: INFO: SSL/TLS 
> initialized. All network traffic will be encrypted.
> 
> What am I missing here? I don't know anymore....
> 
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
> 
> Clemens Sibon
> 
> Triple IT
> Pettemerstraat 12a
> 1823 CW Alkmaar
> 
> Tel: +31 (0)72 5129516
> Fax: +31 (0)72 5129520
> Email: c.sibon at triple-it.nl
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