Help - I am unable to get the NSClient++ to restart services

[Paulo Ribas]

if you need to restart a service in the windows, you can install the OpMon Agent downloaded from the following URL https://www.opservices.com.br/agentes . After installing the agent, create the command: 
check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ 5666 -n -c service_control -a "NAME_OF_SERVICE" stop or start. 



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Paulo Ribas 
www.opservices.com.br 


----- "Jonathan Williams" wrote: 
> 


Hello everyone, I am new to Nagios and am looking for some help. I already posted this in the forum as well. I can successful get Nagios to monitor any service I need, but I can’t get it to restart. Here is my situation up to date: (from the forums) 



I did make sure event handler was enabled, but the documentation refers to scripting the start up of linux services, not Windows. I figured I can create a .bat file to do a simple net start, but how does Nagios run it? Is it something like this? (example of the server service) 
> 
> define service{ 
> host_name somehost 
> service_description Server Service 
> max_check_attempts 4 
> event_handler restart_server 
> } 
> 
> Than for the handler command: 
> define command{ 
> command_name restart-httpd 
> (This is where I am unsure. Do I give it a path to the .bat file?) 
> 
> Is nagios able to run this file from the host PC. In these linux script examples I am unsure if the script is on the Nagios server of the host server. Any help would be awesome. Hopefully I'm close to accurate here. 



I got a reply: 



You can use NRPE/NSClient++ and instead of using it to run remote scripts to check something, use it to restart your services. See 
> 
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-windows.html 
> http://trac.nakednuns.org/nscp/ 



However still cant get NSClient to start the service. The links provided detail how to set up monitor host services. This works great. However I cannot get the NSCLient++ to actually restart the service. I edited the NSC.INI file to comment out the "check_all_services" section and have the values set to "started" however it still shows the service as stopped and it will not restart it. I am assuming there is a step I am missing in this in some config file somewhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am under a deadline to have this up by this weekend. Management thought this would be easier than it is and gave me two days. 



Any help on what I am missing would be greatly appreciated. 





Jonathan Williams 

Sr. Systems Administrator 

G4S Justice Services, Inc. 

Tel: 800.589.6003 ext 1308 

jonathan.williams at us.g4s.com 


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