Custom perl plugin doesn't work

[Zach La Celle]

I'm not sure exactly what you mean.  On the monitor machine, there's 
only the blah.cfg file in '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/blah.cfg'.  I 
didn't even think that this was necessary, since it's really just 
running check_nrpe_1arg (which is defined in 
/etc/nagios-plugins/config/check_nrpe.cfg) and passing in the name of 
the command to the remote host.

On the remote host, it has the "blah" command defined in 
/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg, as such:
command[blah]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/blah.pl

So, it should call check_nrpe on the monitoring host, which uses the 
nrpe-server to attempt to run the command through the remote host.  
Since the command is listed in nrpe.cfg on the remote host, it should 
see it there, run the actual perl script listed there, and return the 
output.

On 12/13/2011 12:53 PM, mail at catsnest.co.uk wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Zach La Celle 
> <lacelle at roboticresearch.com <mailto:lacelle at roboticresearch.com>> wrote:
>
>     The error, when I attempt to run it from the monitoring machine, is:
>     NRPE: Command 'blah' not defined
>
>     The command IS defined in /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg on the target machine.
>     The command is ALSO defined in /etc/nagios-plugins/config/blah.cfg on
>     the target machine.
>
>
> Is '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/blah.cfg' linked in your Nrpe commands 
> config?
>
> Can you run the command via check_nrpe on the local (target) machine?
>
> Only time I saw a command not getting picked up by nrpe was when I had 
> started nrpe twice!
> and as such was only restarting the second one which had not bound to 
> the interface of course.
>
> Ritchie
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>     I restarted nagios-nrpe-server after adding the command.
>
>     I'm calling it from my monitoring server with
>     /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H <hostaddress> -c blah
>
>     When I run the perl script myself, it works fine.
>
>     Any ideas?  All of my other checks for this host work.
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