nrpe CheckEventLog

[Tristan Drinkwater]

Thanks for the reply.

I fear the main problem here is the lack of knowledge that's sat in-between my chair and my pc :)

I've edited the ini file on the server to allow both arguments and nasty chars and restarted the service.

If I use the -a switch after -c checkEventLog all I get back is 'CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon... blah, blah blah...'

To me, that's suggests something isn't right on my windows server end, but what?

Thanks again :)


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Elsen [mailto:mark.elsen at gmail.com]
Sent: 16 February 2011 12:55
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe CheckEventLog

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Tristan Drinkwater <tristand at micro-p.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I hope someone can help me.
>
> I'm trying to set up Nagios to return a warning for all red error logs in both the system and application logs on a windows 2003 server.
>
> So far no matter what I try I always get 'Eventlog Check ok' even when I know that there are some red error's showing in the log.
>
> I've just been running this from the libexec folder so far as I what to get the syntax right before defining the service and alike.
>
> ./check_nrpe -H IP -p 5667 -c checkEventLog file=application
> file=system filter-eventType==error filter-generated=\<1d
>
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> NSclient 3.3.20 installed on windows machine.
>
>
> Can someone provide a simple syntax that will at least produce something more interesting the 'ok' so I know that's it is possible? At the moment I'm thinking it's stuck at only reporting 'ok' no matter what I do.
>

  Ah, the ole-dead-thing, isn't working as it is supposed too case :-).

  Usually this  means that something is overlooked , or there is a knowledge-gap in corrrect usage of the needed tool ;
  Some things to remark :

             - normally in your example command the  '-a' flag should appear after checkEventLog to denote arguments following (I think)
             - in the NSC config file on the remote host, support for arguments must be , explicitly enabled, as also support for nasty meta chars (I think)
             - further I would advice to make tests against the lastest version of NSClient 0.3.8..x , because the syntax changed somewhat, and this can influence  behavior, pending your are looking at links with correct examples w.r.t to the version of NSClient used , or not.

M.

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