NRPE 2.0 arguments question

[Rafael Bandeira da Costa]

Hello Jeremy

   There is no problem about it... I have my checkcommands.cfg's 
check_nrpe configured like check_nrpe -t 30 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$ 
-a $ARG2$ $ARG3$ $ARG4$ $ARG5$ $ARG6$ $ARG7$ $ARG8$ $ARG9$ $ARG10$ 
$ARG11$, just in case I need lots of arguments.

   The only point you have to pay attention is passing no arguments at 
all... There may be - as far as I'm concerned - two problems:

1. Passing no arguments at service configuration will cause a blank -a 
execution of check_nrpe, causing and error (check_nrpe: option requires 
and argument -- a).

In this case, you can use just a dummy argument, like check_command 
check_nrpe!check_cpu!1. No real function to the "1" argument, but solves 
your problem!

2. If the NRPE host was not compiled with --enable-command-args, you 
will receive an unkown status with the message "CHECK_NRPE output error" 
(or something like that).

For both cases, another way to solve those problems would be creating 
two different check commands, i.e. check_nrpe_args and check_nrpe_noargs.

   I hope that helps you!

Cheers,
Rafael Costa
rafaelc at vegait.com.br
Curitiba / PR / Brasil


Pavleck, Jeremy D. escreveu:

> Greetings,
> If I setup an nrpe.cfg check of something like check_procs -w $ARG1$ -c
> $ARG2$ -a $ARG3$ $ARG4$ and don't supply an $ARG4$, will it error or
> simple just carry on with the check? I'm trying to make some overly
> generic remote checks here, and something like this would be great.
> Thanks.
>
> Jeremy D. Pavleck
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