[clue] [tech] Nagios question - remote plugin status isn't shown

Christopher Cross g1ccross at gmail.com
Fri May 25 15:23:51 MDT 2012


It sounds like you are only checking the npre plugin version and not the
raid check command in your Nagios config. Can you post the relevant parts
of your Nagios config files. The host, service, and commands parts should
provide enough info.

Christopher Cross
g1ccross at gmail.com
(310)536-6392


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net> wrote:

> **
> Hi CLUEbies,
>
> I'll keep this simple since I hope it's a simple question. I set up nagios
> and it's monitoring a remote system to make sure the RAID array is OK. I'm
> using the NRPE (remote) plugin because the /proc/mdstat file contains the
> RAID array health information, and it's not readable from my Nagios
> server.  In the web interface the status is shown (OK, critical, etc) but
> no further command output is shown.
>
> There's a whole "Status Information" column in the web interface and
> instead of showing some useful command output it shows only "NRPE v2.13".
> When I click on the service to drill into the status further, the
> "Performance Data" is blank where the status output should be.  I think it
> would be a lot better if the actual plugin output was shown in the web
> interface.
>
> When I run the local command it displays this:
>
> [root]# /usr/nagios/libexec/check_md_raid
> OK - Checked 1 arrays.
>
> When I run the remote command from the nagios monitoring server it
> displays this:
>
> [root at nagios ~]# /usr/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H remote.host.IP -c
> check_md_raid
> OK - Checked 1 arrays.
>
> >From this I know the remote command is working as configured, and the
> command output is seen on the nagios server when it runs the remote command
> because it picks up the OK status.  In the web/GUI interface for "Services"
> it shows OK but the only status information is "NRPE v2.13" instead of the
> "OK - Checked 1 arrays." command output like it shows for every other
> non-remote Nagios command.
>
> Help please?  How can I get the remote command output shown in the web
> interface?  Believe it or not I've tried a variety of google searches for
> this and got nothing, so help me CLUE you're my only hope!
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> --
> Jim Ockers, P.E., P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
> Contact info: http://www.ockers.net/
>
>
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