Running Windows batch files through NRPE

Assaf Flatto assaf.flatto at ssp-intl.com
Thu May 21 14:06:57 CEST 2009


You could try using the winnrpe 
http://www.itefix.no/i2/winrpe

This will give you all the flexibility of the nrpe , but on a windows machine.

Assaf


On Wednesday 20 May 2009 13:17:48 Leleux, Jeremy J wrote:
> Thanks for the posts y'all!  I was able to get it running w/ 2 batch
> files. The first batch file was strictly a file copy script that sent
> over the config and update script.  The second batch uses psexec to run
> the update script on each windows server.  I'm still working out some
> kinks, but for the most part it's working.  If anyone is looking for
> more information on how to do this, let me know and I would be glad to
> help.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Jeremy Leleux
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Burger [mailto:alex_b at users.sourceforge.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:02 PM
> To: Leleux, Jeremy J
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Running Windows batch files through NRPE
>
>
> You are running NSClient++ as a service which is using the SYSTEM
> account.  The SYSTEM account does not have access to network resources.
>   One solution is to create a domain user account and then change the
> NSClient++ service to use the new account.  Also make sure the account
> has access to the batch file.
>
> As someone else mentioned it may make more sense to use a scheduled task
>
> but it also needs to run as a network account that has access.  You may
> want to look at psexec from Sysinternals.
>
> Alex
>
> Leleux, Jeremy J wrote:
> > I'm running Nagios 3.0.6/CentOS 5.2 for my Nagios server.  Its
> > monitoring my Windows Servers, all 2003, I have NSClient++ on those
> > servers and its working fine.  My problem is that I'm trying to
> > centralize the configs on the NSClient++'s w/ the help of batch files.
> > I have setup commands to allow me run the scripts w/ the help of
> > check_nrpe, but they will not run.
> >
> > Here is the contents of one of my batch files, nscpp_config.bat, to
> > update the NSClient++ config:
> > 		@echo off
> > 		xcopy
> > \\10.10.0.50\public\Departments\Infor~1\Scripts\nscpp_copy.bat
> > C:\Progra~1\NSClient++ /Y
> > 		exit
> > When I try to run this command from my Nagios Server, I get an
>
> "Invalid
>
> > Drive Specification Error".  And here is my config line to allow the
> > command in NSClient++:
>
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