Thank you all for the comments on the parenting issue I posted yesterday. We have come up with a much easier solution than had been proposed. I am now having an issue with check_snmp. I have used check_snmp to monitor this exact service in the past on other Nagios hosts and am using other snmp checks as well from the current host. Here is the problem: nagios@ulapnag01:/usr/local/nagios/libexec> /check_snmp -H peapgse01 -o GSA-MIB::crawlRunning.0 -C public -m GSA-MIB -P 2c -d "=" SNMP problem - No data received from host CMD: /usr/bin/snmpget -t 1 -r 5 -m GSA-MIB -v 2c -c public peapgse01:161 GSA-MIB::crawlRunning.0 But if I run the command it shows, exactly: nagios@ulapnag01:/usr/local/nagios/libexec> /usr/bin/snmpget -t 1 -r 5 -m GSA-MIB -v 2c -c public peapgse01:161 GSA-MIB::crawlRunning.0 GSA-MIB::crawlRunning.0 = INTEGER: Running(1) Both are being run as the nagios user, the second is a cut and paste of the command shown by check_snmp and reported to have no output. I don't think I have mucked up the syntax as the command produced for snmpget works just fine. I am probably missing something really easy here and if someone could point it out I would really appreciate it. Best Regards, Mark L. Potter Systems Engineer Academy Sports & Outdoors 1800 N. Mason Rd Katy, Texas 77449 Office: 281-646-5857 Cell: 281-734-6965