problem monitoring ldap service

[Hanspeter Kunz]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:14 -0700, Morris, Patrick wrote:
> Hanspeter Kunz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to monitor an ldap service:
> >
> > define service {
> >         check_command                  check_ldap!dc=ifi,dc=uzh,dc=ch!-3
> >         host_name                      host.ifi.uzh.ch
> >         notification_period            24x7
> >         use                            generic-service
> >         service_description            host_check_ldap
> > }
> >
> > nagios tells me: 
> >
> >   Could not bind to the LDAP server
> >
> > However, if I execute the following command (on the nagios server)
> >
> >   check_ldap -H host.ifi.uzh.ch -b dc=ifi,dc=uzh,dc=ch -3
> >
> > (which should do correspond exactly to the above config as far as I
> > understand it)
> >   
> It does not correspond exactly, necessarily (and, in fact, most likely 
> does not).  It depends how your check_ldap command is defined in your 
> Nagios configuration.

check_ldap is defined as:

  check_ldap /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ldap -H '$HOSTADDRESS$' -b
'$ARG1$'

and I can't find any difference to the shell command above.

Many thanks,
Hanspeter



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