usage of check_nrpe

[Marc Powell]

On Jun 3, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Anirudh Srinivasan wrote:

> I am using NRPE plugins to monitor the remote linux server.
>
> Here is my question :

>
> There are two queries  one is "DEAD" and the other is "error" in my  
> nrpe.cfg file
> command[check_log]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_log -F /var/log/ 
> messages -O /var/log/check_log.messages.error -q 'DEAD'
> command[check_log]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_log -F /var/log/ 
> messages -O /var/log/check_log.messages.error -q 'error'
>
> Will this check both the queries  DEAD and error and show on the web  
> interface or will this check only the query "DEAD". I would like to  
> check both the query .

It will check only one. You need to define unique command[names] for  
each check and specify unique service{} definitions for each. If you  
specify duplicate in nrpe.cfg, by testing I see that only the last  
defined command is executed.

--
Marc


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