<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I have created an event handler to restart tomcat using all of our startup scripts etc.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The script works from the machine it resides on running as the Nagios user.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Using ./check_nrpe –H hostname –c cycle_tomcat CRITICAL HARD 3<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Fails giving me <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> NRPE: Unable to read output<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I currently use check_disk and several other plugins from nrpe successfully. If I make an echo script and call it, it returns fine.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve added <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Echo “cycle_tomcat” > /tmp/event-handler.out <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> As the very first line of the script, and that works.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve also tried setting up the restart-httpd event handler that comes with Nagios, and get the exact same problem. If I run it from the machine as the Nagios user, it works perfectly. If I call it from nrpe, it fails and gives me NRPE: Unable to read output.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The permissions are overly broad right now to make sure there’s not a problem, although everything is owned by nagios, with 7, and other plugins inside of the directory work fine.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Currently my listing in nrpe for trying the restart-httpd script is<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> [restart-httpd]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/restart-httpd<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Nathan Oyler<o:p></o:p> Information Technology<o:p></o:p> 480-308-2342 Office<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Khimetrics Inc.<o:p></o:p> Maximizing Sales & Profit<o:p></o:p> Revenue Management from Khimetrics<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>