Nagios Monitor Server, and NRPE clients, giving funny results

[Gabriel - IP Guys]

I get the concept, NRPE is installed on my client servers, and nagios
itself is installed on ate server designated the monitor server. This
server itself also has NRPE installed as it's monitored by a separate
nagios install, but that's above and beyond this issue. I've been told
that I cannot pass arguments to NRPE from the monitor server. For
example, check_nrpe -H client_IP check_disk - is the most that I can
issue on the monitor server. I guess this then means that in the *.cfg
files on nagios, everywhere it says check_nrpe!check_disk - there should
be no arguments after it?

If this is the case, then I think I found where the guy I replaced made
a mistake!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:assaf.flatto at ssp-intl.com]
> Sent: 08 May 2009 11:00
> To: Nagios User list
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Monitor Server, and NRPE
> clients,giving funny results
> 
> Gabriel
> 
> I believe you may be confusing the two components .
> Nagios is the core system submitting requests and gathering the
answers
> from the clients and
> network.
> NRPE is a client agent installed on the individual server being
> monitored from the nagios - and
> AFAIK there is no rpm for it , you can download it from the nagios
site
> -> addons
> http://www.nagios.org/download/addons/
> 
> Please read the documentation about the NRPE and see how to set it up
> to your needs .
> 
> Assaf
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday 08 May 2009 17:45:24 Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:
> > I installed nagios from RPMs is there a way to check NRPE
precompiled
> > binary to check for support of arguments?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:assaf.flatto at ssp-intl.com]
> > > Sent: 08 May 2009 10:38
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Monitor Server, and NRPE
> > > clients,giving funny results
> > >
> > > What is the configuration command of check_disk of the nrpe  in
the
> > > clinet machine ?
> > >
> > > Did you setup the nrpe with the support-args when you complied it
?
> > >
> > > if not , the you will not be able to pass arguments to the nrpe
> > > executor , but will have to define
> > > the exect execution of each command in the nrpe client side.
> > >
> > > Assaf
> > >
> > > On Friday 08 May 2009 17:26:57 Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:
> > > > Dear All,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to get my Nagios instance to behave properly! It
seems
> to
> > >
> > > be
> > >
> > > > monitoring my servers just fine, but for some reason, all my
> >
> > servers,
> >
> > > > which are different from each other show the same swap space,
and
> >
> > the
> >
> > > > same free disk space to within 10 megs.
> > > >
> > > > Now the above tells me that there is a config error somewhere.
In
> > >
> > > order
> > >
> > > > to test this, I log into my monitor server, and issue the
> following
> > > > command;
> > > >
> > > > ./Check_nrpe -H client_ip -c check_disk 50 80
> > > >
> > > > My understanding tells me that the following happens
> > > >
> > > > *	The check_nrpe plugin on the nagios monitor server runs,
> and
> > > > accesses the client at client_ip
> > > > *	It initiates its local check_disk plugin with the
> parameters of
> > > > 50 and 80.
> > > > *	This causes the check_disk plugin on the client to run,
as
> if
> > > > typed locally in this manner check_disk -w 50 -c 80
> > > >
> > > > Running check_disk 50 80 on client_ip returns data on the disk
> state
> > > > Running ./Check_nrpe -H client_ip -c check_disk 50 80 on Nagios
> > >
> > > monitor
> > >
> > > > server returns unknown argument
> > > >
> > > > I cannot figure out what is causing this discrepancy -
check_nrpe
> -H
> > > > client_ip returns Nagios version so I know the communication
> works.
> > > >
> > > > Any help will be appreciated
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > > Kind Regards,
> > > > Mr Gabriel
> >
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