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Ok...sounds like we are going in circles and I was first asked for the location of the PID file in the .cfg and then checked the location of the PID file and then we are back to asking the location of the PID file. The script says the PID file should be /var/run/nagios/nrpe.PID...I changed it from t...

Below is the result of the command.....

focusbh:~ admin$ ls -la /var/run/nagios/nrpe.pid
ls: /var/run/nagios/nrpe.pid: No such file or directory
focusbh:~ admin$

Whats next?

Sorry since this is a mac install the command you sent did not work. I did modify to "grep pid /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg Below the output focusbh:~ admin$ grep pid /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg pid_file=/var/run/nagios/nrpe.pid focusbh:~ admin$ This was installed from the Nagios server us...

8/12/13 10:29:42.541 PM nrpe[1312]: Starting up daemon 8/12/13 10:29:42.541 PM nrpe[1312]: Cannot write to pidfile '/var/run/nagios/nrpe.pid' - check your privileges. 8/12/13 10:29:42.542 PM nrpe[1312]: Warning: Could not set effective GID=11 8/12/13 10:29:42.543 PM nrpe[1312]: Warning: Unable to ch...

No...I am looking to execute a command that will restart a program NOT a LINUX services....Command I need to run is "fmsadmin START WPE"

Been reading on how to restart a LINUX service. Is the process about the same for restarting a program not a service running on a machine running the NRPE?

Thanks,

Honestly I haven't found much....I Googled monitoring a cisco asa in nagios and got http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Network-Gear/Cisco/Cisco--2D-Check-firewall-ASA-and-PIX/details Not much more then that. Do I need to create a syslogd server in Nagios? Also looking to be able t...

I will fully admit...I am a stark newbie when it comes to configuring Nagios....What I am trying to do is configure Nagios to read the log file from my Cisco ASA 5505. I have found plugin's but not really any instructions to tell me how to configure Nagios or what has to be done to the ASA. Can anyo...

I figured this one out....So to monitor something like FileMaker Pro which in the service list shows as 'FileMaker Pro" you need to introduce ' between the words....So FileMaker Pro becomes 'FileMaker' 'Pro'

Mac OS X 10.8.3 machine and I am trying to monitor a service with two words in the name. I am not having problems monitoring a single word service like "Mail" but when I try and service like "FileMaker Pro" I get the error Unknown argument PRO. Since this is UNIX i tried putting ...