nsclient++ check_always_ok syntax

[td3201]

I'm trying to ensure that a plugin check always returns OK. Here's what I'm trying to do:
[root@omaprodut01 objects]# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H 10.20.37.7 -c check_always_ok -a "check_memory" "type=physical" "warn=free<2M" "crit=free<1M"
Invalid command line: unrecognised option 'check_memory'
help Show help screen (this screen)
help-pb Show help screen as a protocol buffer payload
help-short Show help screen (short format).


Clearly what I'm doing here isn't correct. What's the right way to do what I'm trying to do here?

[scottwilkerson]

Can you post the nsclient++ command definition for check_always_ok

Thanks

[lgroschen]

for -a:

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 [arglist]  = Optional arguments that should be passed to the command.  Multiple
              arguments should be separated by a space.  If provided, this must be
              the last option supplied on the command line.

so just send into -a "$ARG1$ $ARG2$ $ARG3$ $ARG4$"

So yours would look like:

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 /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H 10.20.37.7 -c check_always_ok -a "check_memory type=physical warn=free<2M crit=free<1M"

What matters here is how you have the arguments defined in check_always_true because you might need type to be type=physical OR just physical if in the command definition it is being passed as type=$ARG2$. Do this for each argument, then post the check_always_ok definition and the command that your run here.

[td3201]

I appreciate your help. I'm not following what you're suggesting. check_always_ok is a builtin command within nsclient++ so it's not defined within the nsclient.ini explicity. The documentation for nsclient++ is miserable at best. Or I can't read it.

http://www.nsclient.org/trac/tmp/refere ... ys_ok.html

[slansing]

Unfortunately, as NSClient++ is not maintained by us, nor does that help page show anything that is helpful when it comes to syntax, I have no idea. I'd recommend contacting their team on their support forum to get some information, I'll also try poking around to see what I can get it to do.

[lgroschen]

Does this make more sense:
http://nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/CheckHelp ... _always_ok

An alias for that command is CheckAlwaysOK you could try running it using that.

[td3201]

I may just write a shell wrapper to do the same thing.

[td3201]

I should probably ask. I've been out of the Nagios loop for a couple of years. Is nsclient++ still one of the better agents for windows? Any others out there or agentless methods that I should be aware of?

[abrist]

There are a few big ones:
nsclient (I still prefer 0.3.9.x instead of 0.4.x.x)
ncpa (new, written by the wizard nscott in python and becoming more stable by the day)
wmi ("agentless" but requires configuring wmi on the windows server)
snmp (now deprecated by microsoft)

[Box293]

What version of NSClient++ are you using?