A question on using send_nsca

[Jarlath Lyons]

This example on a linux system should help ....

[root at jlyonslx test_harness]# /usr/bin/printf "HOST\tSERVICE\tCRITICAL\tMy Message ....\n"  | /usr/local/nagios/addons/nsca/send_nsca -H localhost -p 5667  -c ./nsca_send.cfg
1 data packet(s) sent to host successfull

Jar Lyons
Senior Software Engineer
Tideworks Technology, Inc.
(206) 344-3016

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From: steve f [mailto:a31modela at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 10:09 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] A question on using send_nsca

I am trying to send a test job to my nagios server from a monitored client using send_nsca.  I am running suse linux 10 on both client & nagios server.

Currently, everything is working correctly from within nagios using send_nsca as I am set up as distributed environment.  I am now in the process of taking some in house built scripts & trying to send the results to nagios via send_nsca.

My issue is, if I do this from the command line :

/usr/local/nagios/bin/send_nsca -H NAGIOSSERVER -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/send_nsca.cfg < /tmp/test

I see the check come across to the nagios server ( granted it doesn't know what to do with it as the info is not set up in Nagios.  The /tmp/test file is nothing more than a tab delimited file as this :

HOSTNAME       TestMessage     0       This is a test message.

What I have been trying to do is run the same thing above, without the redirect to a discrete file. Every way I try it it fails and just shows me the help page for send_nsca.

Should I be able to do this some way like this ?

/usr/local/nagios/bin/send_nsca -H NAGIOSSERVER -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/send_nsca.cfg  HOSTNAME  TestMessage 0 This is a test message

It appears that the format of the message is incorrect.  I am not getting any tab in between the parameters.  I have tried using a \t  and [tab] but still not working.  Also tried doing an echo -e of the above with a xargs but not correct.

Blaming this actually on my  scripting skills more than Nagios :)

Can anyone shed some light / point me in a direction what I am doing wrong here?

Thanks,

Steve
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