Using NSClient with NRPE

[Jim Avery]

On 4 March 2010 01:27, Ron Wilson <ron at tvnz.co.nz> wrote:
> I have NSclient on my servers and use NRPE to access client. On the whole it
> works fine but I have great difficulty detecting if a windows process is
> running or stopped. I have a java.exe that has to run in a cmd window.
>
> I need to know if that process stops for any reason.
>
> Using command line from Nagios and with Wordpad.exe as a test I have tried
> using this
>
> ./check_nrpe -H  server01 -p 5666 -c  CheckProcState -a wordpad.exe=running
>
>
>
> I get All processes running regardless if Wordpad is open or not.


The one I use is...

./check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u -c CheckProcState -a ShowAll
binaryname.exe=started


hth,

Jim

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