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Hello, We use Nagios Core 4.2.4. We create, almost daily, a lot of Availability Reports, specially for Services and Hosts, but we have some doubts about these reports. That's why we have submitted here, in Community Support, on June 22, a topic about one of those doubts with the subject «Nagios Avai...

Hello, We use Nagios Core 4.2.4. We have a doubt about Service Availabilty Reports created for a service that: - Usually is in a CRITICAL state from 7 pm until midnight; - Should be in OK state in the first hour after midnight; The doubt is the following: what is the meaning of the line that exists ...

Hi mcapra! We are very grateful for your help. We have tried your first suggestion («Try leveraging the encoding parameter in your NSClient++ configuration: (…) Set it to whatever encoding is being used on your Nagios Core machine») and it worked fully! Since UTF8 is the Nagios Core machine encoding...

Hi mcapra!
Thanks a lot for your answer!
As soon as possible, we will create the conditions to try the solutions you suggested.

Hello, We use «Nagios Core 4.2.4», plugin «check_nrpe 3.0.1» (in this case, with «check_eventlog» command) and «NSClient++ 0.5.0.62», on Windows servers, to check these servers System and Application Logs. The issue is the following: in some situations, Status Information (in Nagios graphic interfac...

Thank you too, scottwilkerson.
For now, we have no further questions on this issue.

Thanks again, mcapra and npolovenko, for your replies!

Hello npolovenko, Thanks for your reply! We understand that «It doesn't matter where you put the external command script before executing». However, external commands scripts automatically used by Nagios graphic interface are, certainly, stored somewhere: it's those locations that we would like to k...

Hello mcapra,

Thanks for your reply!

We are considering to submit a GitHub issue about this matter.

For now, we would like to know where are, physically speaking (directories), DISABLE_HOST_CHECK script and all the other external commands listed in the link you sent us.

Thanks again!

Hello npolovenko, Thanks for your reply! We don't understand some parts of your reply: 1. In your script, where/what is the variable for the username that executes the DISABLE_HOST_CHECK command? 2. Where are DISABLE_HOST_CHECK script and other external commands? 3. What is %lu ? Thanks in advance!