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for and only plugin check_proliant not able to get info :
/var/log/messages

[1384790804] INITIAL SERVICE STATE: callme-lekki-billing1;FANs status;UNKNOWN;HARD;3;UNKNOWN: Error in pexpect while running hpasmcli

did somebody meet this problem?
If you need some more info let me know

From the plugin source:

# Python script for Nagios
# check hpasm/hplog fans and power
#
# Requires: /sbin/hpasmcli, pexpect
#
# Note: This uses the thresholds that HPLOG reports to determine OK or CRITICAL for temperatures
#
# This script requires the pexpect module which is Expect implemented in pure python.
# it can be obtained from: http://www.noah.org/wiki/Pexpect (or SourceForge.net)
#
# NOTE: Nagios must have the ability to run hpasmcli as root via sudo. You can do this
# by adding the following line to /etc/sudoers, assuming the nagios user is 'nagios':
# nagios ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/hpasmcli

Do you have pexpect?

yes, I have

the problem solved, I changed
in nrpe.cfg file nrpe_user=nagios nrpe_group=nagios
on default they are = nrpe

They should not be nrpe by default, out of curiosity how did you install NRPE?

I followed this link http://sharadchhetri.com/2013/03/02/how ... d-red-hat/
and as you can see there he also has nrpe as default in his nrpe.cfg

Ahhh, the official docs are different than that link. Glad it is resolved. Is this thread lock-ready?

Sorry guys, I was happy too early
I have now the next problem

I'm installing nrpe+check_proliant.py on 4 hp servers.
2 of them works just fine , but on the other two I got this answer running check_proliant.py locally.

./check_proliant.py --type=fan
CRITICAL: Fan #1 Status=No. Fan #1 Speed=-. Fan #1 Redundant=N/A. Fan #2 Status=No. Fan #2 Speed=-. Fan #2 Redundant=N/A.

but when I run hpasmcli locally on all 4 - the answer is as it should be

I can't see any difference between 4 machines. All sudoers have nagios user to run check_proliant.py with no password, like this

nagios ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/hpasmcli
nagios ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/*
nagios ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_proliant.py
Defaults:nagios !requiretty

all 4 servers have

-rwxr-xr-x 1 nagios nagios 13772 Nov 13 20:58 check_proliant.py

and all 4 PC have nrpe_user=nagios
nrpe_group=nagios in nrpe.cfg

could you give me the way to dig?
Thank you

On one of the problem servers, try running the check locally as root.
Are the permissions the same on the hpasmcli utility?
Is selinux enabled?

give me a sec, I'll check

yes
hpasmcli in the same direcotry on all pc's /sbin

all have /sbin in PATH

[vassiliy@callme-lekki-billing2 plugins]$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/opt/cassandra/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

and I have /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/ directory pexpect.py

-rwxr-xr-x 1 nagios nagios 75937 Nov 15 22:18 pexpect.py