Monitoring Windows Mount Points

[rdhall01]

We have several DB servers that have mount points with vaious volumes, and I need to be able to monitor them similar to drives! I have nsclienttpp on the windows servers (this is working for all other checks).

I tried commands similar to this:
$USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 30 -c CheckDriveSize -a Drive=H:\ FilterType=REMOTE ShowAll MaxWarnUsed=90%

but the error is:
UNKNOWN: Could not get free space for: H: FilterType=REMOTE H: FilterType=REMOTE reason: 3: The system cannot find the path specified.
Any insight on how to accomplish this would be helpful

Redhat 5x
NagiosXI
nsclientpp

[scottwilkerson]

Drive letters are user specific mapping, try the UNC path without the filter

Try this

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$USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 30 -c CheckDriveSize -a 'Drive=\\<SERVER>\<SHARENAME> ShowAll MaxWarnUsed=90%'

[rdhall01]

Im just not getting it too work with the following other nrpe checks are still working

command used
$USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 30 -c CheckDriveSize -a 'Drive=\\dbw049\data01 ShowAll MaxWarnUsed=90 MaxCritUsed=95'

results
CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for error messages.

[lmiltchev]

What does the log say?

Can you try using this command and see if this is going to work?

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$USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 30 -c CheckDriveSize -a Drive=\\\\dbw049\\data01\\ ShowAll MaxWarnUsed=90% MaxCritUsed=95%

[rdhall01]

This is from the log
2012-04-18 19:07:31: error:.\NRPEListener.cpp:374: Request arguments contained illegal metachars!
2012-04-18 19:07:31: error:.\NRPEListener.cpp:336: NRPEException: Request command contained illegal metachars

[lmiltchev]

Try editing the NSC.ini file so that you will have:

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[code];# COMMAND ALLOW NASTY META CHARS
;  This option determines whether or not the NRPE daemon will allow clients to specify nasty (as in |`&><'"\[]{}) characters in arguments.
allow_nasty_meta_chars=1

[/code]

After this, restart the nsclient++ service:

From DOS Command Prompt:

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net stop nsclientpp
net start nsclientpp

See if this is going to make a difference.

[rdhall01]

reults are as follows
CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for error messages.

from the log file
2012-04-23 14:17:17: error:.\NRPEListener.cpp:374: Request arguments contained illegal metachars!
2012-04-23 14:17:17: error:.\NRPEListener.cpp:336: NRPEException: Request command contained illegal metachars!

[lmiltchev]

I just noticed that my previous post didn't print out correctly - sorry about that. In the NSC.ini file, you should have:

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;# COMMAND ALLOW NASTY META CHARS
;  This option determines whether or not the NRPE daemon will allow clients to specify nasty (as in |`&><'"\[]{}) characters in arguments.
allow_nasty_meta_chars=1

Then you have to restart nsclient++ service.

[rdhall01]

ok first mistake I didnt change the 0 to 1 for meta data
recycled the service
entries from the log file
2012-04-23 15:04:20: message:CACHE.\NSClient++.cpp:370: Attempting to start NSCLient++ - 0.3.5.1 2008-09-24
2012-04-23 15:04:20: message:CACHE.\FileLogger.cpp:93: Log path is: C:\Program Files (x86)\NSClient++\\nsclient.log
2012-04-23 15:04:20: message:.\NSClient++.cpp:476: NSCLient++ - 0.3.5.1 2008-09-24 Started

and now I get the following in nagios
UNKNOWN: Could not get free space for: \\xx.xx.xx.xx\data01\ \\xx.xx.xx.xx\data01\ reason: 67: The network name cannot be found.
I removed the ips and replaced xx to show the error

OK let me try to clear this up abit We have a MS 2008 server that has a network mount point with several volumes on it
I have ben able to monitor the mount point but I also need to be able to monitor the volumes (similar to drives)

We are using the following version of NSCLient++ - 0.3.5. If I need to change I am open to some insight
I Need to get this resolved as soon as posible to get the clusters monitored

[lmiltchev]

Every "\" in the path should be escaped with another "\" character. Most probably your command should be:

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./check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 30 -c CheckDriveSize -a Drive=\\\\dbw049\\data01\\ ShowAll MaxWarnUsed=90% MaxCritUsed=95%

instead of

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./check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 30 -c CheckDriveSize -a Drive=\\dbw049\data01\ ShowAll MaxWarnUsed=90% MaxCritUsed=95%

Can you try this and post the output?