Running Windows batch files through NRPE

[Leleux, Jeremy J]

Thanks for the posts y'all!  I was able to get it running w/ 2 batch
files. The first batch file was strictly a file copy script that sent
over the config and update script.  The second batch uses psexec to run
the update script on each windows server.  I'm still working out some
kinks, but for the most part it's working.  If anyone is looking for
more information on how to do this, let me know and I would be glad to
help.

Respectfully,

Jeremy Leleux
IT Administrator
Sunland Construction, Inc.
Corporate Division
Office: 337.550.2142
Fax: 337.546.0245
Mobile: 337.580.6062
Email: jjleleux at sunlandconstruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Burger [mailto:alex_b at users.sourceforge.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:02 PM
To: Leleux, Jeremy J
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Running Windows batch files through NRPE


You are running NSClient++ as a service which is using the SYSTEM 
account.  The SYSTEM account does not have access to network resources. 
  One solution is to create a domain user account and then change the 
NSClient++ service to use the new account.  Also make sure the account 
has access to the batch file.

As someone else mentioned it may make more sense to use a scheduled task

but it also needs to run as a network account that has access.  You may 
want to look at psexec from Sysinternals.

Alex


Leleux, Jeremy J wrote:
> I'm running Nagios 3.0.6/CentOS 5.2 for my Nagios server.  Its
> monitoring my Windows Servers, all 2003, I have NSClient++ on those
> servers and its working fine.  My problem is that I'm trying to
> centralize the configs on the NSClient++'s w/ the help of batch files.
> I have setup commands to allow me run the scripts w/ the help of
> check_nrpe, but they will not run.
> 
> Here is the contents of one of my batch files, nscpp_config.bat, to
> update the NSClient++ config:
> 		@echo off
> 		xcopy
> \\10.10.0.50\public\Departments\Infor~1\Scripts\nscpp_copy.bat
> C:\Progra~1\NSClient++ /Y
> 		exit
> When I try to run this command from my Nagios Server, I get an
"Invalid
> Drive Specification Error".  And here is my config line to allow the
> command in NSClient++:


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