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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>Andrew, I'm puzzling over your approach. It could
well be that your requirements have dictated this approach, but I thought I'd
voice my thoughts, just in case.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>It appears that you're trying to do this status
check:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>Nagios_host -> hostA ->
httpd_on_hostB</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>If you have a firewall which is causing you to use this
approach, I'd understand. But even using Fredrik Wänglund's approach, I
still have to wonder what value $HOSTADDRESS$ will have. If it ends up
having the value of the IP address of the host which is executing it (ie,
hostA), that's one approach. If your intent was to have it poke at hostB,
I'm not sure where it will acquire that IP address value.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>If all you're trying to do is check the status of the
webserver on hostA, and there are no firewalls to contend with, I would suggest
that you not bother with NRPE (for this check). You're making it
unnecessarily complicated.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>Instead, do something like this (from my configs, so I
apologize for the terseness). From services.cfg:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><SPAN class=341470416-03102002><FONT
color=#000080><FONT face="Courier New">define
service{<BR>
name
http<BR>
use
icmp<BR>
service_description
HTTP<BR>
notification_options
w,u,c,r<BR>
check_command
check_http!80<BR>
register
0<BR>
}</FONT><BR></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>Also from services.cfg:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>define
service{<BR>
host_name host1<BR>
use
http<BR>
contact_groups
linux-admins<BR> }</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>And from checkcommands.cfg:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><SPAN class=341470416-03102002><FONT
color=#000080><FONT face="Courier New">define
command{<BR>
command_name
check_http<BR>
command_line $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p
$ARG1$<BR>
}</FONT><BR></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><SPAN class=341470416-03102002><FONT
color=#000080>With this approach, my Nagios host will attempt a direct
connection to port 80 on host1. (It does more than that; do a "check_http
--help" for details.)</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><SPAN class=341470416-03102002><FONT
color=#000080> </DIV></FONT></SPAN></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>Hope this helps.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002>jc</DIV></SPAN></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=341470416-03102002> </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV></SPAN></FONT>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Kaplan, Andrew H.
[mailto:AHKAPLAN@PARTNERS.ORG]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:35
AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Kenneth.ray'<BR><B>Cc:</B>
'nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users] Re:
Retrun code of 99 is out of bounds<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=593213713-03102002>Hi
Ken,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=593213713-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=593213713-03102002>I
did a check of the command and the feedback I got indicated the check_http
command was not defined. I went to the remote host's nrpe.cfg file and I
checked the syntax </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=593213713-03102002>of
the check_http command. Here's what it reads:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=593213713-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=593213713-03102002>
command[check_http]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/$USER1$/check_http -H
$HOSTADDRESS$</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=593213713-03102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=593213713-03102002>Should the above line have the $USER1$ setting
changed to the actual user running the daemon, and similarly should
$HOSTADDRESS$ be the actual address of the remote host?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Kenneth.ray
[mailto:kenneth.ray@travelersla.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 03,
2002 8:33 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] Re:
Retrun code of 99 is out of bounds<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><TT>This quite simply
means that when the program excuted</TT> <BR><TT>an error occured which
Nagios could not interpret,</TT> <BR><TT>hence its "out of bounds"
message.</TT> <BR><TT>Nagios is looking for return codes of 0,1,2,(3)</TT>
<BR><TT>(not sure of the three but there is a third return code associated
with</TT> <BR><TT>unknown errors)</TT> <BR><TT>So when it receives a return
code other than the 4 above</TT> <BR><TT>it displays an error of "return
code ## is out of bounds."and</TT> <BR><TT>goes into an "other than ok"
state.</TT> <BR><TT>this is a good indication something is happening behind
the</TT> <BR><TT>scenes. The best way to determine the actual error is
to execute the</TT> <BR><TT>plugin with the same switches as in your service
check with the</TT> <BR><TT>same user that you excute the Nagios daemon
with.</TT> <BR><TT>This should spit out additional information that was
not</TT> <BR><TT>displayed when the service check ran inside of
Nagios.</TT><TT></TT>
<P><TT>Again the above error is the programs way of interpreting</TT>
<BR><TT>errors that fall outside of the realm it is accustomed to
seeing.</TT> <BR>
<P>I hope this helps.. <BR>Kenneth Ray
<P>nagios-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE">Message: 1 <BR>From: "Kaplan, Andrew H."
<AHKAPLAN@PARTNERS.ORG> <BR>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
<BR>Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:30:35 -0400 <BR>Subject: [Nagios-users]
Return code of 99 is out of bounds
<P>What is the cause for a RETURN CODE OF 99 IS OUT OF BOUNDS ERROR? It is
showing <BR>up while checking the http daemon on the remote host.
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