Nagios Core/NSClient Reporting incorrect service state

[agriffin]

While switching to NRPE is probably worth it, I doubt it will solve your incorrect status issue. You may want to try different plugins or checks entirely to work around the issue, for example by checking for the service rather than process like jsmurphy mentioned. There's probably a better solution, but I haven't run into this issue before and I'm not sure what could be going wrong.

[agriffin]

This looks like the same problem that someone else is also having on this forum. If you run tasklist in the Windows command line, do you see the process? What version of NSClient++ are you using?

[jsmurphy]

Now time to figure out why it cannot send mail to my exchange server.

Not to de-rail agriffins' troubleshooting of your other issue, but this should be pretty easy to resolve (famous last words), just check that a. An SMTP relay is configured on the exchange server and b. That it is configured to relay mail from your Nagios server.

More information http://www.petri.co.il/authenticated-or ... e-2007.htm hopefully that helps you get at least the mail part working end to end

[mcannet]

So I am monitoring the service, confirmed by running tasklist on the box. I'm running NSClient version 0.4.0.172. Even the local nagios http service is reporting incorrect, and that's the config "out of the box" I didn't touch that at all.

Also, as for the email, I already have my exchange server configured for relay and in fact have other systems in my network that I am able to successful relay mail from. Also, still running exchange 2003, we are migrating to 2010 this summer, so I may delay my quest for an answer for email until then.

But for now, really want to focus on why services are being incorrectly reported.

For what it's worth, I appreciate your guys willingness to help!

[yancy]

mcannet,

What version of Windows are you monitoring the process list of?

Try downloading the windows process check:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... TK/details

once it's downloaded, see if you can monitor a specific process with the current user:

for example, from the windows command line:
check_winprocess.exe --filter "imagename eq explorer.exe"