Help ^^^ check_nt: Could not parse arguments

[rbradan]

Hello,

I'm newbie in nagios and want to learn and continues experiment the usage of it. and one of my first step is to monitor Windows server using NSClient++. at this time i have problem checking Windows client using check_nt add-ons. using the command usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H 192.168.8.10 I'ved got an error message check_nt: Could not parse arguments, please help what this means, and how to fix it to monitor Windows server.

Thanks,
Raf

[jsmurphy]

It means either your command definitions or your check definitions are incorrect... are you able to post your check_nt command definition and the failing service entry?

[Speeddymon]

Right off, I can see a couple of things wrong with your command definition:

"usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H 192.168.8.10"

You're missing the / on the front, should be "/usr" rather than just "usr". Also, you have to specify what to check in the host. If you run "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H 192.168.8.10" from the command line, it gives you a usage statement meaning you need to also pass the -v flag/

For me:

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# nagios/libexec/check_nt -H 192.0.2.128
Could not parse arguments
Usage: check_nt -H host -v variable [-p port] [-w warning] [-c critical] [-l params] [-d SHOWALL] [-t timeout]

Example, if you wanted to check nt memory usage:

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command[check_nt_mem]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H 192.0.2.128 -v MEMUSE -w 50 -c 90
# -v MEMUSE # for memory usage
# -w 50 # warn at 50%
# -c 90 # critical at 90%