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by mhixson
Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:04 pm
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Not working: Restart windows service with NRPE
Replies: 7
Views: 3385

Re: Not working: Restart windows service with NRPE

Nailed it! All is working. Thanks Sax!!
by mhixson
Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:30 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Not working: Restart windows service with NRPE
Replies: 7
Views: 3385

Re: Not working: Restart windows service with NRPE

Confirmed. Here are screenshots of the service common and variable settings.
common.png
variable.png
by mhixson
Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:35 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Not working: Restart windows service with NRPE
Replies: 7
Views: 3385

Re: Not working: Restart windows service with NRPE

Here's the entry in nsclient.log when it fails while having the %1 in the batch file:

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2015-06-25 11:32:28: debug:D:\source\nscp\modules\CheckExternalScripts\CheckExternalScripts.cpp:459: Command line: scripts\restart_service.bat “spooler”
by mhixson
Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:27 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Not working: Restart windows service with NRPE
Replies: 7
Views: 3385

Re: Not working: Restart windows service with NRPE

Excellent! Now when I run either of these commands, the service is bounced. And the event handler is restarting the stopped service automatically as it should. ./check_nrpe -H <hostname or IP> -p 5666 -c restart_service -a spooler ./servicerestart.sh CRITICAL <hostname or IP> spooler The Print Spool...
by mhixson
Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:57 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Best practices: Monitoring multiple windows services
Replies: 4
Views: 1770

Re: Best practices: Monitoring multiple windows services

Here's the thread on their forum for anyone interested.
by mhixson
Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:51 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Best practices: Monitoring multiple windows services
Replies: 4
Views: 1770

Re: Best practices: Monitoring multiple windows services

Box293 wrote:Using NSClient++ I don't believe what you want is possible, I don't think you can be that specific with the warning and critical definitions for multiple services. I would suggest you post a question in the NSClient++ forums about this.
Great, thanks Box. I'll see what they say over there.
by mhixson
Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:59 pm
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Best practices: Monitoring multiple windows services
Replies: 4
Views: 1770

Best practices: Monitoring multiple windows services

I have successfully set up monitoring multiple Windows services with NRPE using the command below. We have several server "types" we group our servers in (i.e. Citrix, Web, Database, etc.) which will each have their own bag of services we want to watch. Easy enough to configure and manage ...
by mhixson
Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:42 pm
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Not working: Restart windows service with NRPE
Replies: 7
Views: 3385

Not working: Restart windows service with NRPE

[I have requested access to the Customer Support forum previously and do not yet have access.] System profile attached. Nagios installed manually on a minimal CentOS 6 VM. Everything is vanilla. I am trying to follow the guide here here for automatically restarting a windows service via NRPE when it...