Event Handler not accepting arguements (also in Setup forum)

[jmeek]

I am monitoring a web farm using a linux system and nrpe_nt/check_nrpe. Everything is working fantastic (THANKS!)

My recent challenge is that one of my developers has a web application that occassionally gets "stuck" and needs to have the NT W3SVC restarted. I can detect the failure just fine so I setup an event handler to restart the service when the check fails. If I create a check that calls a batch file on the NT server that has this in it with no event arguements it works:

SVC_RESTART.BAT:
net stop w3svc
net start w3svc
exit 1

But instead of creating a event handler dedicated to every potential service (thinking to the future) I would like to do this ...

SVE_RESTART.BAT
@echo off
net stop %1
net start %1
exit 1

Now, this works on the command line from the monitoring system but when I setup this check:

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c nt_svc_restart -a $ARG1$

and enter the check in the event handler with !w3svc in the arguements I get:

Error: Event handler command 'nt_svc_restart!w3svc' specified in service '(SERVICE)' for host '(HOST)' not defined anywhere. (SERVICE and HOST are obviously changed to protect the guilty in this post..) . When I try it without the exclamation mark I get the same error.

So, thoughts ? Why is this working on the command line and not in Oreon ?

[venatici]

Similar issues

I experienced similar issues when trying to pass arguments to an event handler. I'm not sure if it is an error in Nagios or Oreon.

However, what i did, was i passed the arguments in the service definition. This doesn't give you much flexibility though. It works, and that is what i cared about.

As always, it may be helpful to review the process for creating event handlers...

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2...thandlers.html


Looking at your code again however, it would appear that you are sending you event handler arguments to the check command. Do you have a seperate event handler routine that you are passing to? or, are you sending these to the check command?

[Penna]

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2...thandlers.html

This link gives an 404 ERROR.

[raphaelt]

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3...thandlers.html <- New URL. nagios stable version is 3.x