Nagos issuse: ExternalCommands: failed to create process when exectuted from command line

Elvir Kuric omasnjak at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 15:52:42 CEST 2009


Thank you Marc,

I think I re-read these links again. I know nagios is not simple, but
there out is a lot of material how to set up what I want, at the
moment I spent all my ideas regarding this problem.

Nice regards,

Elvir

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Marc Powell<marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 6:47 AM, Elvir Kuric wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have an question related to monitoring windows machines using
>> nagios. I installed nagios on debian and it works
>> super. For monitoring windows client I installed on windows NSClient++
>> - 0.3.5.2 2008-09-24, and set up NSC.ini ( among other configuration
>> elements )
>>
>> command[check_load]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_load -w 15,10,5 -c
>> 30,25,20
>> ( just want to make first step with this )
>>
>> When I execute from my linux -nagios server command as bellow
>>
>> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins# ./check_nrpe -H WIN_IP_ADDRESS -c check_load
>>
>> I got error:
>>
>> ExternalCommands: failed to create process
>> (/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_load -w 15,10,5 -c 30,25,20): 3: The
>> system cannot find the path specified.
>
> I don't use nsclient++ but to help you understand the concepts and get
> you pointed in the right direction, check_nrpe contacts a daemon
> running on a remote host (NRPE or NSClient(++)) and asks that daemon
> to execute a plugin *installed and runnable* on the remote host. In
> your case, /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_load is almost certainly not
> installed on your Windows machine, in that path, and it certainly
> isn't executable by Windows if it was (outside of using Cygwin).
>
> This documentation may be useful to you - http://nsclient.com/nscp/wiki/doc/usage/nagios
>
> The specific check you're looking for appears to be - http://nsclient.com/nscp/wiki/CheckCPU
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
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