can't get host to display in Host Detail panel

Jonathan Wiggins jwiggins at salon.com
Wed Sep 22 18:37:53 CEST 2010


HI Assaf.

Thanks for replying to my email

this is the output of the command

$ ./check_users -w 5 -c 10
USERS OK - 1 users currently logged in |users=1;5;10;0

On Sep 22, 2010, at 2:19 AM, Assaf Flatto wrote:

> On 22/09/10 02:09, Jonathan Wiggins wrote:
>> 
>> # The following examples use hardcoded command arguments...
>> 
>> command[check_users]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_users -w 5 -c 10
>> command[check_load]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_load -w 15,10,5 -c 30,25,20
>> command[check_hda1]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20% -c 10% -p /dev/hda1
>> command[check_zombie_procs]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w 5 -c 10 -s Z
>> command[check_total_procs]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w 150 -c 200
>>  
>> 
>> # The following examples allow user-supplied arguments and can
>> # only be used if the NRPE daemon was compiled with support for
>> # command arguments *AND* the dont_blame_nrpe directive in this
>> # config file is set to '1'.  This poses a potential security risk, so
>> # make sure you read the SECURITY file before doing this.
>> 
>> #command[check_users]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_users -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$
>> #command[check_load]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_load -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$
>> #command[check_disk]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p $ARG3$
>> #command[check_procs]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -s $ARG3$
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> that's the entry in the .cfg file, if I run this for example, you can see it does give me output:
>> /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H localhost
>> NRPE v2.12
>> 
>> but other than that, I just run the command as below?
>> /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H localhost -c check_users    (I'm confused on this part - does this particular "check_users" need this at the end? " -w 5 -c 10"   when that's done, I get Unable To read output )
>> 
>> i've checked permissions also on the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/* directories and only the ../nagios/ directory has nagios.nagios as the owner, the rest have root.root  -- i've seen permissions listed in other forums as the possible culprit, but my permissions seem right?  I've only got "nagios" listed as the nrpe_user and the nrpe_group  in the nrpe.cfg file -- do I need to add "nrpe" and/or "root" to this?
>> 
> 
> when you try running one of the command localy on the remote machine what is the output ?
> 
> "/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_users -w 5 -c 10 " - what does this command return ?
> 
> Assaf
> 
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