<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:p="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:powerpoint" xmlns:a="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:access" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" xmlns:b="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:publisher" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:c="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:component:spreadsheet" xmlns:odc="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:odc" xmlns:oa="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:activation" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:q="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:rtc="http://microsoft.com/officenet/conferencing" xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:Repl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/repl/" xmlns:mt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/" xmlns:x2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2003/xml" xmlns:ppda="http://www.passport.com/NameSpace.xsd" xmlns:ois="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/ois/" xmlns:dir="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:dsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" xmlns:udc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:sub="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/2002/1/alerts/" xmlns:ec="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#" xmlns:sp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" xmlns:sps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:udcs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/soap" xmlns:udcxf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile" xmlns:udcp2p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/parttopart" xmlns:wf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/workflow/" xmlns:dsss="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig-setup" xmlns:dssi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig" xmlns:mdssi="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/digital-signature" xmlns:mver="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:mrels="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships" xmlns:spwp="http://microsoft.com/sharepoint/webpartpages" xmlns:ex12t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:ex12m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:pptsl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/SlideLibrary/" xmlns:spsl="http://microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/PublishedLinksService" xmlns:Z="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" xmlns:st="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=WordSection1> We figured it out.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The service config needs to not have any quotes: <o:p></o:p> The service block has the check_command set to: check_command check_log_perl_nofilter_test!/srv/logs/spamnet/log-parser/log-parser.log!/srv/nagios_nrpe/tmp/log-parser.log.out!ERROR: Parent: Fatal error<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The check_command definition needs quotes:<o:p></o:p> command_line $USER2$/check_nrpe -u -t 30 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_log_perl_nofilter -a $ARG1$ $ARG2$ "$ARG3$”<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> and the nrpe.cfg needs quotes: command[check_log_perl_nofilter]=/srv/nagios_nrpe/scripts/check_log.pl --filename=$ARG1$ --oldlog=$ARG2$ --query="$ARG3$"<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -Lori<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'> From: Lori Adams [mailto:ladams@cloudmark.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:00 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] passing a string with spaces to nrpe<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> I’m having a terrible time setting up nrpe to allow me to pass a string with spaces. This is with nagios 3.x and nrpe 2.0.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The service config is trying to check a log on a remote server for a string that contains spaces.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The service block has the check_command set to: check_command check_log_perl_nofilter_test!/srv/logs/spamnet/log-parser/log-parser.log!/srv/nagios_nrpe/tmp/log-parser.log.out!\"ERROR: Parent: Fatal error\"<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The check_command is set to:<o:p></o:p> define command {<o:p></o:p> command_name check_log_perl_nofilter_test<o:p></o:p> command_line $USER2$/check_nrpe -u -t 30 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_log_perl_nofilter -a $ARG1$ $ARG2$ "$ARG3$"<o:p></o:p> }<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The nrpe config is then:<o:p></o:p> command[check_log_perl_nofilter]= /srv/nagios_nrpe/scripts/check_log.pl --filename=$ARG1$ --oldlog=$ARG2$ --query=$ARG3$<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> If I change the nrpe config to echo the command, so that it looks like: command[check_log_perl_nofilter]= echo /srv/nagios_nrpe/scripts/check_log.pl --filename=$ARG1$ --oldlog=$ARG2$ --query=$ARG3$<o:p></o:p> Then, the output of the echo is:<o:p></o:p> /srv/nagios_nrpe/scripts/check_log.pl --filename=/srv/logs/spamnet/log-parser/log-parser.log --oldlog=/srv/nagios_nrpe/tmp/log-parser.log.out --query=ERROR:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve tried quoting the $ARG3$ in the nrpe command, and I get the same thing. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve seed other threads on the list that in order to pass quotes to nrpe, you must escape them. You can see I’ve tried that. Any guidance would be extremely helpful.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p></o:p> Thanks,<o:p></o:p> Lori Adams<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>