By: Mark Levy

Mark Levy — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:56:23 +0000

More info on this issue: After turning debug on at the client, I just saw the following turn up on nsclient.log:

2011-02-03 14:46:16: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1106: Injecting: CheckCounter: \Processor(_total)\% Processor Time, MaxWarn=70, MaxCrit=85, ShowAll
2011-02-03 14:46:17: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1142: Injected Result: OK ‘OK: \Processor(_total)\% Processor Time: 3.90625′
2011-02-03 14:46:17: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1143: Injected Performance Result: ”\Processor(_total)\% Processor Time’=3.90625;70;85; ‘
2011-02-03 14:46:54: debug:modules\NSCAAgent\NSCAThread.cpp:229: Nothing to report, thus not reporting anything…

So it appears that the nagios console IS sending at least some of the requests to the client, however I don’t know if the client isn’t responding or why the services don’t show up in the console.

By: Mark Levy

Mark Levy — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:18:00 +0000

Oops, I should have also added the verification (/usr/sbin/nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg completes with no warnings or errors, and the nagios reload completes with no errors either.

Thanks again!

Mark

By: Mark Levy

Mark Levy — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:05:30 +0000

I wanted to thank you for this tutorial! Until I found your posting here, I was feeling like the “SouthPark” kids when dealing with the “Underpants Gnomes:” I saw the start of the procedure, and knew what was supposed to happen, but I couldn’t quite figure out how to set up the service definition, so Thank You So Much!

However, I’m still having a problem here: I think that there’s still a problem with getting the service to be seen by the Nagios console screen. I added the command definition to the commands.cfg file, and for testing, I added the service definition to a specific host cfg file.

When running from the command line, I get good results, but the nagios console just doesn’t show the new services…

I’m wondering if there’s something that I’m missing. The hostfile “levym.cfg” seems to be OK, since it does show 7 other services running on the system.

Here’s what I’ve found, and I’m hoping you can spot something I missed:

From “commands.cfg”

define command{
command_name check_perfcounter
command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$ -c CheckCounter -a $ARG5$ $ARG2$Warn=$ARG3$ $ARG2$Crit=$ARG4$ ShowAll
}

From hostfile “levym.cfg”

##########################
# Test Service to check processor time from PerfMon
##########################

define service{
use generic-service
host_name levym
service_description PerfMon Processor Counter
check_command check_perfcounter!5666!Max!70!85!”\\Processor(_total)\\% Processor Time”
}

define service{
use generic-service
host_name levym
service_description PerfMon Avg Disk Queue Length
check_command check_perfcounter!5666!Max!3!9!”\\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\\Avg. Disk Queue Length”
}

Command line results:

mhl-sles11:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins # ./check_nrpe -H 192.168.150.230 -p 5666 -c CheckCounter -a “\\Processor(_total)\\% Processor Time” MaxWarn=70 MaxCrit=85
OK all counters within bounds.|’\Processor(_total)\% Processor Time’=0;70;85;

mhl-sles11:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins # ./check_nrpe -H 192.168.150.230 -p 5666 -c CheckCounter -a “\\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\\Avg. Disk Queue Length” MaxWarn=70 MaxCrit=85
OK all counters within bounds.|’\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\Avg. Disk Queue Length’=0.27468140000000002;70;85;
mhl-sles11:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins #

thanks again for all your help!!!

Mark

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