NRPE Customize configure

[tgriep]

Lets use this plugin as an example.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... 29/details
You would download the check_folder_size.sh script to the remote system and put it in the /usr/local/nagios/libexec folder.
Then set the owner and permissions of it so it can be executed. Run this as root on the remote server.

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chown nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_folder_size.sh
chmod 777 /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_folder_size.sh

Then you would edit the nrpe.cfg file and create a command line the example below

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command[check_folder_size]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_folder_size.sh -f $ARG1$

Save the file and restart the NRPE Agent

Then on the Nagios Server you would edit the Tmp folder command and change $ARG1$ to

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check_folder_size

and $ARG2$ to the following

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-a '/tmp -s g -w 15 -c 20'

That will check the /tmp folder and return the output in Gigabytes with a warning level of 1.5 Gigabytes and critical over 2.0 Gigabytes
You can adjust the thresholds, etc. using the options below.

-s k (Kilobytes) m (megabytes) g (gigabytes)
-w Warning level
-c Critical level

Any questions, let us know.

[Kevin.c]

hi

it was still not working , do we need to do something about the agent , it's HP-UX server we monitoring
for nagios server show us "NRPE: Command 'check_folder_size' not defined"

[tgriep]

Did you copy the check_folder_size.sh to the HP-UX server and put it in the /usr/local/nagios/libexec folder and set the permission of the file so the nagios user can read and execute that script?

If so, then you will have to create the command in the nrpe.cfg file on the HP-UX server the example below.

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command[check_folder_size]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_folder_size.sh -f $ARG1$

Save the file and restart the NRPE agent on the HP-UX server and see if the check works for you.
The command in XI looks good so that should not have to be changed.