Doesn't nrpe require some installation on the remote machine? I can't install that plugin to the remote machine so ill trie to get it done with check_by_ssh. As i understand it doesn't require any additional plugins on the remote. But what puzzles me the most, is how Nagios will send the result of the script check in the alarm notification. Script echoes back some text and i can't figure out how to send that text back in the notification if result <>OK I guess there has to be some check on Nagios side regarding the result, where i should specify what is and what is not OK. But is there anything i should do, so that Nagios would be able to actually fetch the result and send it in the notification? Tõnis <div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2011 17:45, Assaf Flatto <<a href="mailto:nagios@flatto.net">nagios@flatto.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">Tõnis Trei wrote: > Hello, > > Im quite new at Nagios and have run into a small problem. > > I need to trigger a script with a parameter on a remote machine and > based on the result trigger an alarm or not. > But im at little loss on how to set it up. > > Script is located in /etc/init.d/script.sh on a remote machine and i > should run it as "/etc/init.d/script.sh X" where x is the parameter. > Script returns me the result, eather OK or some text and in case of > not being ok, i want to send this text out with an email. > > So im wondering that should i specifie a command in command.cfg that > would run this script and then create a new service that would trigger > this command and mail the results? > > > Thanks, > Tõnis </div></div>The basic way is to do this over nrpe , you need to make sure that nrpe ios complied with the command-args option and then you can pass the parameter you want to the script you want to trigger . for more information on NRPE <a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/addons.html#nrpe" target="_blank">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/addons.html#nrpe</a> Assaf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>