NRPE Woes Monitoring Windows Servers

[Robert Jackson]

Sorry about the lack of info:

I've turned on log debugging and it produced the following:

2012-01-29 09:39:03: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1106: Injecting: CheckVersion: 
2012-01-29 09:39:03: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1142: Injected Result: OK '0.3.8.75 2010-05-27'
2012-01-29 09:39:03: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1143: Injected Performance Result: ''
2012-01-29 09:39:15: error:modules\NRPEListener\NRPEListener.cpp:393: Request contained arguments (not currently allowed, check the allow_arguments option).
2012-01-29 09:39:15: error:modules\NRPEListener\NRPEListener.cpp:365: NRPEException: Request contained arguments (not currently allowed, check the allow_arguments option).

In the above case the Nagios command issued was:

./check_nrpe -H <server IP> -p 5666 -c CheckUpTime -a MinWarn=1d MinCrit=12h

I'm aiming to get to a point where for all Windows machines (Servers and PCs) I have a default check template of:

NSClient++ version
Uptime
CPU Load
Memory Usage
Disk Usage (all partitions)
Explorer process is running.

In the NSC.ini file, the following have all been uncomment:

FileLogger.dll
CheckSystem.dll
CheckDisk.dll
NSClientListener.dll
NRPEListener.dll
SysTray.dll
CheckEventLog.dll
CheckHelpers.dll
CheckWMI.dll
;
; Script to check external scripts and/or internal aliases.
CheckExternalScripts.dll

Also:

allowed_hosts=<Nagios Server IP Address>



Regards,
Rab.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Avery [mailto:jim at jimavery.me.uk] 
Sent: Saturday 28 January 2012 19:21
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE Woes Monitoring Windows Servers

On 28 January 2012 15:52, Robert Jackson <rab at walkermartyn.co.uk> wrote:
> Hope someone can point me in the right direction. For any  check_nrpe
> command (except CheckVersion) I get the following:
>
>
>
> CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for
> error messages.
>
>
>
> I know this is a bit sketchy

Yes, it is rather.

>, but I don't understand why the CheckVersion
> command would work and anything else won't. I'm assuming here that because I
> get the version of the NSClient++ returned without error, then NSClient++ is
> configured correctly? I have uncommented the necessary modules within the
> NSC.ini files on the Windows server.

> I've tried both CheckMEM and CheckUptime with no success. Can someone please
> help?

Does the nsclient.log file contain anything interesting?

There are umpteen ways to configure NSClient++ and run checks against it.
What specific checks are you trying to run and how are you running them?

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