check_nrpe - NSClient - Exit Codes always showing 'Warning'

[sixarm]

Hi,

I've just been playing with a few PowerShell scripts for my Exchange environment and these are working really well.

Sadly, no matter if I exit the script with code 1 or code 2 it always shows as 'Warning' within Nagios. I also manually tested a code 3 exit and this also showed up as 'Warning'.

Any ideas?

[agriffin]

Are you sure it says warning when you use exit code 2? It should say critical instead. To get an OK state, exit with code 0.

[sixarm]

Sadly yes.

If you look at the screenshot the IF statement involved within the PowerShell script adds "CRITICAL:" to the text and sets the exit code to 2. You can clearly see that the "CRITICAL:" part is being returned within the text, however as you can see Nagios is only showing WARNING, not CRITICAL.

Could this be something to do with the NSClient++ settings? Is there any way that I can debug this at all?

[agriffin]

That's pretty weird. Would it be possible to post the script you're running?

[sixarm]

Of course, here it is. - http://pastebin.com/Pahxh6Qb

It's a slightly modified version of this plugin.

All I've modified is the output text and the thresholds.

[yancy]

Hi sixarm,

Can you also post the external script command your using in NSClient++. Should be located in NSC.ini and look like this:
cmd /c echo scripts\%SCRIPT% %ARGS%; exit($lastexitcode) | powershell.exe -command -

If you run the powershell script from powershell, and you then run "echo $lastexitcode" is that exit code being interpreted correctly?

Regards,

[sixarm]

Hi yancy,

Thanks for the reply.

Below is what I have within NSC.ini

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check_exqueue=cmd /c echo scripts\ExchangeQueueHealth.ps1 | powershell.exe -command -

I don't have exit parameters in there so I'm guessing this could be my problem. If I were to change the line within NSC.ini to the below would that solve this issue?

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check_exqueue=cmd /c echo scripts\ExchangeQueueHealth.ps1; exit($lastexitcode) | powershell.exe -command -

[sixarm]

Thanks yancy.

I can confirm that Nagios is now reporting 'Warning' and 'Critical' states from the Powershell script exit codes.

[agriffin]

Glad you were able to get it working!