Check issues on Solaris with NRPE not dealing with ARGS

[Brian O'Mahony]

>From the nrpe.cfg

# COMMAND ARGUMENT PROCESSING
# This option determines whether or not the NRPE daemon will allow clients
# to specify arguments to commands that are executed.  This option only works
# if the daemon was configured with the --enable-command-args configure script
# option.
#
# *** ENABLING THIS OPTION IS A SECURITY RISK! ***
# Read the SECURITY file for information on some of the security implications
# of enabling this variable.
#
# Values: 0=do not allow arguments, 1=allow command arguments

dont_blame_nrpe=1

But as the commands are working remotely from the shell on the nagios-server, isn't this already working? Is there a difference between sending the commands (as either the nagios or root user) from the nagios-server to beatrix (my monitored server)

So if the commands work that way, shouldn't they work from the automated checks?

(Im pretty new to nagios)

From: Voigt, Thomas [mailto:Thomas.Voigt at netkom.de]
Sent: 12 August 2009 14:29
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check issues on Solaris with NRPE not dealing with ARGS

Hi Brian,

Brian O'Mahony wrote:

> So it looks like the args are not being passed to the solaris box. I just don't understand what im doing wrong here. (I am also looking at check_mem and check_users but have forgon those until I get the issue with the ARGS resolved)

did you read the following in your nrpe.cfg?

##########################################################################
# COMMAND ARGUMENT PROCESSING
# This option determines whether or not the NRPE daemon will allow clients
# to specify arguments to commands that are executed.  This option only works
# if the daemon was configured with the --enable-command-args configure script
# option.
#
# *** ENABLING THIS OPTION IS A SECURITY RISK! ***
# Read the SECURITY file for information on some of the security implications
# of enabling this variable.
#
# Values: 0=do not allow arguments, 1=allow command arguments

dont_blame_nrpe=0
##########################################################################

Maybe you have to recompile nrpe with "./configure --disable-ssl --enable-command-args" ?

The other way is to work with static parameters in the nrpe.cfg file. If possible...


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Thomas Voigt




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