Check Cups Queue

[MilesDeep]

Hello Nagios World,

I've found some good plug-ins for monitoring cups queues, but I'd like to monitor whether or not a queue is up or down, not the number of jobs in the queue.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[abrist]

There are a number of plugins that achieve this on the exchange. Take a look:
http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... hword=cups

[MilesDeep]

If I run lpq -P printer1 from the command line, I get printer1 is ready or printer1 is not ready. That's what I want. Can someone help me with a script that can turn this into an alert?

[MilesDeep]

Thanks. I did check those and I didn't see any that checked simply if the queue was enabled or disabled, whether the printer was ready to not. That said, I am very new at this.

I'm still receiving this: NRPE: Unable to read output

I thought about modifying one of the scripts found on the Exchange. This one, but I can't get it to work:

#!/bin/bash

LPR=$1
ERROR='$LPR is not ready'

QUEUE=`lpq -P $LPR'
QUEUE=$(($QUEUE))

INFO="Queue($QUEUE)"

if [ $QUEUE -gt $ERROR ]; then
echo "ERROR - $INFO"
exit
fi

echo "OKAY - $INFO"
exit 0

[Box293]

How about something like this:

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#!/bin/bash

LPR=$1
MESSAGE='$LPR is ready'

QUEUE=$(lpq -P $LPR 2>&1)

INFO="Queue($QUEUE)"

if [ "$QUEUE" != "$MESSAGE" ]
then
   echo "ERROR - $INFO"
   exit 2
fi

echo "OKAY - $INFO"
exit 0

[MilesDeep]

I've added that script, thanks. At this point I am receiving error; NRPE: Unable to read output in Nagios and error; -bash: !check_queue_status!lpq: event not found, from the command line.

[ssax]

Did you add the script to your remote host and add the command to your remote hosts agent configuration?

You would then use something like:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H REMOTEIP -c check_queue_status -a "printer1"

[tmcdonald]

Can you also show the command you are running that produces the "event not found" output?

[MilesDeep]

I can't figure out why I keep getting NRPE: Command 'check_queue_status.sh' not defined. When I run it from the command line, I get a result. When I look at the logs, I see no errors. The command is listed in nrpe.cfg. It's correct in commands.cfg and Linux.cfg. Really stuck.

[ssax]

Please post the service, command, and nrpe configs.