[Nagiosplug-help] Where to pass check_nrpe args in Nagios config?

[Curt Shaffer]

On 8/1/05, Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de <Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> because I have to monitor Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) Service
> Groups (SG)
> which are quite a few, I wanted to ease configuration by building
> an NRPE daemon for the cluster nodes
> that would accept arguments (although this undermines security in
> general).
> 
> Having built the nrpe daemon and configured it to be run by inetd
> I defined this command in nrpe.cfg
> 
> 
> # check_vcs commands for SGs autostart on nemesis
> command[check_vcs_sg]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_vcs.pl -g
> $ARG1$ -s $ARG2$
> 
> As you can see I make use of the contributed check script
> check_vcs.pl that simply takes two args,
> i.e. -g SG, and -s node.
> 
> When I run it via check_nrpe from my nagios server it is working
> ok,
> showing me that SG blabla1 is happily running on node nemesis.
> 
> 
> [nagios at daisy:~/etc]
> $ /opt/sw/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H nemesis -c
> check_vcs_sg\!blabla1\!nemesis
> OK: hagrp blabla1 is ONLINE
> 
> 
> However, things don't quite work when nagios is started and
> scheduling the checks.
> Then I get unknown states due to CRC32 errors.
> 
> In my nagios server's checkcommands.cfg I defined this
> 
> define command {
>    command_name        check-nrpe
>    command_line        $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c
> $ARG1$
> }
> 
> 
> 
> And in services.cfg I call it like this
> 
> 
> define service {
>    use                         generic-service
>    service_description         nemesis-sg-online
>    hostgroup_name              nemesis_vcs_sgs
>    check_command
> check-nrpe!check_vcs_sg\!$HOSTNAME\!$HOSTGROUPALIAS$
>    contact_groups              vcsadmin
> }
> 
> 
> The hostgroups.cfg has this definition
> 
> # template for BlaBla SGs
> #
> define hostgroup {
>    hostgroup_name      nemesis_vcs_sgs
>    alias               nemesis
>    members             blabla1,blabla2,blabla3,...,blablabN
> }
> 
> 
> n.b. I simply renamed the members (i.e. hostnames) here.
> For each of those I have a host definition with own IP in
> hosts.cfg because every SG has amongst other resources
> (such as disk groups, volumes, mounts etc.) also a (multihomed)
> NIC and a bound IP address.
> 
> Can you see where my configuration (assumption) is wrong?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Ralph
> 
> 
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