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How can i show file output of windows through nagios ?

Lets say there's a test file in windows contain random data, how can i show the output in nagios.

What is "displayed" on the Nagios end of things is (almost completely) dependent on what the specific plugin you are leveraging does. I don't know of a plugin that will read the entire contents of a file and display them in Nagios, but you're welcome to check on the Nagios Exchange. Personally, I would be averted to letting the Nagios engine directly load/read the contents of an arbitrary file (for security/performance reasons).

These plugins allow you to check the contents of a file in a samba share. If you simply want to make sure the file contains a certain string, these should do the trick:
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... le/details
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... nt/details

If neither of those are adequate, can you share more information about your use case?

Nagios can monitor for strings within a file and alert if something is outside of your specified threshold or does not match with the string you've set, but it will not display all of a file or parts of it - is that what you're looking to do?

There are many options on our exchange site for monitoring files on Windows, here are a few:

Check if a string or a chain provided by -s option is present in a file.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... nt/details

check_winfile is a Nagios NRPE plugin for checking simple files or files in directories by using various types of filters like file count, size, age or name match.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... TK/details

Counts the number of files in given directory and its sub-directories, with optional filters applied. The output is compatible with Nagios.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... in/details

- Hope this helps -