Tag: Nagios

Configure monitoring of Watchguard devices with Nagios XI

November 21, 2013

Firstly, we will need to enable the Firebox  as a SNMP device, as below: 1) From Policy Manager, select Setup > SNMP. 2) Select the SNMP polling type and enter the configuration details. In my configuration I am selecting ‘v1/v2c’ for SNMP polling which requires a community string to be configured. 3) Select the SNMP … More Configure monitoring of Watchguard devices with Nagios XI

Report status of MOVEit Central tasks to Nagios XI

November 21, 2013

I recently had the requirements to enable the reporting of tasks runs for MOVEit Central to Nagios XI, with the following: For each task report the status of the last task run. Return a status of ‘OK’ where the task run status is reported as ‘Success’ or ‘No xfers’. Return a status of ‘Critical’ where … More Report status of MOVEit Central tasks to Nagios XI

NSClient reports “Request string contained illegal metachars!”

November 21, 2013

I as recently compiling an external script within Nagios XI to run using the NSClient where upon execution I was receiving the following message in the nsclient.log: 2013-11-21 17:02:10: error:modules\CheckExternalScripts\CheckExternalScripts.cpp:202: Request string contained illegal metachars! This is due to the NRPE daemon by default not accepting the use of the the characters `&><‘”\[]{} in arguments. … More NSClient reports “Request string contained illegal metachars!”

Nagios XI and Ubuntu returns ‘CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon’.

November 11, 2013

When monitoring a remote Ubuntu server which Nagios XI I was receiving the below unknown message for the service status: CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for error messages. Following investigation , I noticed the following entry in /var/log/syslog: Nov 11 15:24:58 nrpe[7768]: Error: Request contained command arguments, but argument … More Nagios XI and Ubuntu returns ‘CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon’.