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Hi,

I have just setup a Nagios Core installation on an Ubuntu machine to monitor the servers on my domain. I have installed the latest NSClient++ on the servers and edited the ‘windows.cfg’ on the Nagios box and all the machines are signing in and reporting their drive/RAM/CPU usage etc.

I now want to configure the servers now to send any error log event that are created to the Nagios server. I have read a few articles and followed one, but not having much luck. I have un-commented the ‘CheckEventLog.dll’ on the clients and entered this into the ‘commands.cfg’ file on the Nagios server:

#Check the Windows System Log for Errors in the last hour
define command{
command_name check_eventvwr_sys_errors
command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTNAME$ -p 5666 -c CheckEventLog -a filter=new file="system" MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=1 filter-generated=\<1h filter-eventType==error filter=in filter=all
}

I am unsure where this information is supposed to be displayed but no events are appearing.

Sorry if this sounds like a total rookie question, I have only just started using it.

Try putting everything after -a in single quotes if it's all part of the same argument.