$HOSTADDRESS$ being ignored with nrpe?

[Haydn Haines]

Hi All,

I'm currently evaluating Nagios for use in our company and I've run in to a small problem. For some reason the nrpe plugin is ignoring the $HOSTADDRESS$ argument and always returns stats for the localhost. The relevant parts of the configuration files are as follows:

/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg:
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cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/hosts


/etc/nagios/commands.cfg:
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define command{
        command_name    check_nrpe
        command_line    $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
        }

/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg:
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command[check_disk1]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 10% -c 5% -p /


hostX:/etc/nrpe.cfg:
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command[check_disk1]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 10% -c 5% -p /


/etc/hosts/hostX.cfg:
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define host{
        use                     linux-server            ; Name of host template to use
        host_name               hostX
        alias                   hostX
        address                 192.168.1.1
        }

define service{
        use                             remote-service            ; Name of service template to use
        host_name                       hostX
        service_description             Root Partition
        check_command                   check_nrpe!check_disk1
        }



If I change the check_nrpe command line in commands.cfg and the check_command of the hostX.cfg file to the following it works, but I don't want to repeat the hostname over and over as it will make adding new hosts awkward:

        command_line    $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$
        check_command                   check_nrpe!hostX!check_disk1


Please would somebody advise me why the $HOSTADDRESS$ argument isn't working??

Thanks,

Haydn.
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