Checking emails/pages and check_nrpe

[Jan Scholten]

> Hi 
> 
> I am trying to test my pager/email notification.  Is
> there a way you could test email notification out
> without bringing the host down.  Any command line
> argument you could send from Nagois to verify nagios
> would actually page you when the host goes down?
Just setup a testhost with an bogus address (that does not exist) or use 
a Service check with check_dummy 2 not that difficult.


> Also, I have installed check_nrpe and I could run a
> command line for the check_disk and it returns the
> information I need, like so:
> gaia# /usr/local/etc/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H pan
> -c check_disk
> DISK OK [63185032 kB (95%) free on /dev/sda3] [80442
> kB (83%) free on /dev/sda1] [1030776 kB (100%) free on
> /dev/shm]
>  
> But I it is not populating the webpage.  I don't see
> any Disk information in the webpage.
> Here is my services.cfg file:
> 
> # Service definition
> define service{
>         use                            
> generic-service         ; Name of service template to
> use
> 
>         hostgroup_name                 
> computer-distopias
>         service_description             Disk
>         is_volatile                     0
>         check_period                    24x7
>         max_check_attempts              3
>         normal_check_interval           5
>         retry_check_interval            1
>         contact_groups                  linux-admins
>         notification_interval           240
>         notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            c,r
>         check_command                  
> check_nrpe!check_disk
>         }
> 
> and the check_disk line in my nrpe.cfg file:
> 
> command[check_disk]=/usr/local/etc/nagios/libexec/check_disk
> -w 20 -c 10
> 
> I have a similar plugin running called check_load
> which is working fine.
> 
> Obviously I am missing something...
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> -Mukarram Syed.

Is the check scheduled? Did you restart the NRPE Server on the remote 
Host after editing the nrpe.cfg?

turn on the verbose mode in the nrpe.cfg (restart nrpe)

check log files!

Jan


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