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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This example on a linux system should help ….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">[root@jlyonslx test_harness]# /usr/bin/printf "HOST\tSERVICE\tCRITICAL\tMy Message ....\n" | /usr/local/nagios/addons/nsca/send_nsca -H localhost -p 5667
-c ./nsca_send.cfg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">1 data packet(s) sent to host successfull<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jar Lyons<br>
Senior Software Engineer<br>
Tideworks Technology, Inc.<br>
(206) 344-3016 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> steve f [mailto:a31modela@hotmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 22, 2011 10:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nagios-users] A question on using send_nsca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I am trying to send a test job to my nagios server from a monitored client using send_nsca. I am running suse linux 10 on both client & nagios server.<br>
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Currently, everything is working correctly from within nagios using send_nsca as I am set up as distributed environment. I am now in the process of taking some in house built scripts & trying to send the results to nagios via send_nsca.<br>
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My issue is, if I do this from the command line :<br>
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/usr/local/nagios/bin/send_nsca -H NAGIOSSERVER -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/send_nsca.cfg < /tmp/test<br>
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I see the check come across to the nagios server ( granted it doesn't know what to do with it as the info is not set up in Nagios. The /tmp/test file is nothing more than a tab delimited file as this :<br>
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HOSTNAME TestMessage 0 This is a test message.<br>
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What I have been trying to do is run the same thing above, without the redirect to a discrete file. Every way I try it it fails and just shows me the help page for send_nsca.<br>
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Should I be able to do this some way like this ?<br>
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/usr/local/nagios/bin/send_nsca -H NAGIOSSERVER -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/send_nsca.cfg HOSTNAME TestMessage 0 This is a test message<br>
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It appears that the format of the message is incorrect. I am not getting any tab in between the parameters. I have tried using a \t and [tab] but still not working. Also tried doing an echo -e of the above with a xargs but not correct.<br>
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Blaming this actually on my scripting skills more than Nagios :)<br>
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Can anyone shed some light / point me in a direction what I am doing wrong here?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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