autogenerating NRPE handlers for nrpe.cfg

Roger Roger at NagiosWiki.com
Sat Feb 23 00:23:18 CET 2008


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Roger <Roger at nagioswiki.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Roger wrote:
> > > I have hundreds of hosts, each of which needs an npre.cfg file to
> > > reflect the true "fdisk -l" and "df -h" output of each box.
> >
>
> > >
> > > Anyone have any scripts that they've used? I'm in a bind, otherwise
> > > I'd think about writing my own...
> > If this is to get a disk check depending on what disks are available,
> > look here for a tip:
> >
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg11936.html
>
>
> I'm having a problem getting this sort of thing to work
>
> on monitored server (with nrpe) i have the following line in nrpe.cfg
>
>
> command[check_disks_proc_mount]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disks_proc_mount
>
> In my check_disk_proc_mount script (which runs ok on its own), I have
> something similar to
>
> ./check_disk -w 15% -c 20% $(for x in $(/proc/mounts | awk '{print $2}');
> do echo -n " -p $x "; done)
>
> I run this from the command line, and I get my expected "DISK OK" return
> value.
>
> However, I get "NRPE: Unable to read output" when I run the following
> command from the plugins directory from my Nagios server
>
> ./check_nrpe -H (ipOfMonitoredBox) -c check_disks_proc_mount
>
> What do I need to do for this to work across NRPE like it does when I'm
> shelled in the box?
>

ah, perhaps it's the case that my script isn't returning a nagios-friendly
exit code?
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