nagios.cmd does not seem to work properly

[Cedric Jeanneret]

Hello,

We'd like to use nagios.cmd pipe to send some signals. According to the examples in documentation, we can do a simple thing like that :

/bin/printf "[%lu] ACKNOWLEDGE_HOST_PROBLEM;host1;1;1;1;Some One;Some Acknowledgement Comment\n" $now > $commandfile

The problem is, it seems it's not taken in account - no log in nagios.log, no message is printed in shell, and more over nagios doesn't seem to do anything.

I tested with an error inside the command, and it seems to be parsed:
[1273156151] Warning: Unrecognized external command -> SCHEDULE_HOST_SVC_CHECKs;fqdn;1273156151

but nothing else happens.

Is there a way to be sure that nagios do what we ask?

The main thing is:
- we're using NSCA plugin so that we have about 80 servers with their own nagios, sending results and status to a single host
- we tried to run this command only on remote hosts - maybe we have to use it on the nsca server ?

Any help is welcome.

Thank you in advance !

Best regards,

C.

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Cédric Jeanneret                 |  System Administrator
021 619 10 32                    |  Camptocamp SA
cedric.jeanneret at camptocamp.com  |  PSE-A / EPFL

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