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@tgriep Thank you! This solved the issue! Just two quick follow-up questions; do you know if there is a way to increase the spacing in the extend status information of Nagios Core on its front end? Or if there is an option to bold certain parts of the output?

Thanks @tgriep, change successful.

@dwhitfield where do you want to see this?

The output is /bin/bash

How would I go about changing nagios123:131::/var/lib/nagios:/bin/false to nagios123:131::/var/lib/nagios:/bin/bash?

I cannot su in the nagios user, after I entered its password I remain as the same user. Do I need to install Nagios Core on the remote machine? Or do I just need to add a user named nagios?

Also, is the line you created what I should have for the nagios command?

Okay, I will try that. I ran cat for /etc/passwd and nagios is listed as:
^On the remote machine

Could this have any affect on the issue?

Yes, the remote machine is also Ubuntu is also 16.04.2 Contents of nrpe.cfg file on remote machine: ############################################################################# # Sample NRPE Config File # Written by: Ethan Galstad (nagios@nagios.org) # # Last Modified: 11-23-2007 # # NOTES: # This ...

@dwhitfield I am using NRPE to run the inxi -Fx command on a remote host. I am using Nagios Core 4.2.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.2.

@mcapra Is just a package installed on Ubuntu. It is running via the command line. Are you recommending I create a script to run the command?

Sure commands.cfg: # 'check_hardware_installed' command definition define command{ command_name check_hardware_installed command_line inxi -Fx } servers/ host .cfg: define host { use linux-server host_name host alias Nagios Client 1 address IP max_check_attempts 5 check_period 24x7 notification_inte...

Hey everyone! I created a command on my nagios server to check hardware installed on remote hosts. The command_line is just: inxi -Fx I installed inxi on the remote server, and the command runs in the service, providing the correct output. The issue is that the output included random number 12s. For...