<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 14px;" lang="x-western">Hello Jeremy There is no problem about it... I have my checkcommands.cfg's check_nrpe configured like check_nrpe -t 30 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$ -a $ARG2$ $ARG3$ $ARG4$ $ARG5$ $ARG6$ $ARG7$ $ARG8$ $ARG9$ $ARG10$ $ARG11$, just in case I need lots of arguments. The only point you have to pay attention is passing no arguments at all... There may be - as far as I'm concerned - two problems: 1. Passing no arguments at service configuration will cause a blank -a execution of check_nrpe, causing and error (check_nrpe: option requires and argument -- a). In this case, you can use just a dummy argument, like check_command check_nrpe!check_cpu!1. No real function to the "1" argument, but solves your problem! 2. If the NRPE host was not compiled with --enable-command-args, you will receive an unkown status with the message "CHECK_NRPE output error" (or something like that). For both cases, another way to solve those problems would be creating two different check commands, i.e. check_nrpe_args and check_nrpe_noargs. I hope that helps you! Cheers, Rafael Costa <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rafaelc@vegait.com.br">rafaelc@vegait.com.br</a> Curitiba / PR / Brasil Pavleck, Jeremy D. escreveu: <blockquote type="cite">Greetings, If I setup an nrpe.cfg check of something like check_procs -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -a $ARG3$ $ARG4$ and don't supply an $ARG4$, will it error or simple just carry on with the check? I'm trying to make some overly generic remote checks here, and something like this would be great. Thanks. Jeremy D. Pavleck Network Engineer System Management Direct Line: 612-977-5881 Toll Free: 1-888-CAPELLA ext. 5881 Fax: 612-977-5060 E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jeremy.pavleck@capella.edu">jeremy.pavleck@capella.edu</a> Capella University 225 South 6th Street, 9th Floor Minneapolis, MN 55402 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.capella.edu">www.capella.edu</a> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>