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Yes, you can close the thread.

So in my service definition I was using "use local-service". I changed this to "use generic-service" which had no effect (kind of expected). I then remove the "use <service>" clause and put in only the relevant parts (i.e. host_name, service_description, check_command, ...

Yes, as both the nagios and root users.

I am using the generic check_disk plugin with -w, -c and -p arguments such as: command[check_disk1]=/path/to/plugins/check_disk -w 10% -c 5% -p disk1 command[check_disk2]=/path/to/plugins/check_disk -w 10% -c 5% -p disk2 command[check_disk3]=/path/to/plugins/check_disk -w 10% -c 5% -p disk3 etc. I a...

The other strange thing is that I have a number of custom commands defined. One of them works and some of the others do not.

The owner/permissions on check_nrpe were root/755. All the other plugins were nagios/755. Not sure how this happened but the permissions should have allowed this to work. I changed check_nrpe to nagios/755. As for the custom commands, they are merely common plugins with different arguments (i.e. che...

I am using NRPE and have created a number of custom commands. I distributed the nrpe.cfg file and all seems to work fine with the exception of displaying the correct information in the browser when using Nagios. I can access and run the check_nrpe command successfully from the server to the remote s...