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

[Jonathan Williams]

https://www.opservices.com.br/agentes I get a page not found.  I can
look around for it.  Is this agent installed on the host along with the
NSClient?  Also is the command created in the windows.cfg like my
example below where I define the command in the config and than under
the service definition I use an event handler to call that command?

 

Thanks again,

 

Jon

 

 

________________________________

From: Paulo Ribas [mailto:paulo.ribas at opservices.com.br] 
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 11:54 AM
To: Jonathan Williams
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Help - I am unable to get the NSClient++ to
restart services

 

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.



[]'s
--
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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