Tag: NSClient

Nagios: Starting NSClient++ service fails with the error ‘NSClient++ (x64) is not a valid Win32 application.’

February 21, 2015

I was recently investigating an issue where the Nagios monitoring agent (NSClient++) service failed to start with the following error message: The NSClient++ (x64) service failed to start due to the following error: NSClient++ (x64) is not a valid Win32 application. In the first instance I attempted to resolve the issue by uninstalling and installing … More Nagios: Starting NSClient++ service fails with the error ‘NSClient++ (x64) is not a valid Win32 application.’

Monitor the status of SQL Server Agent jobs with Nagios XI

November 29, 2013

I am looking into monitoring the status of  SQL Server Agent jobs and reporting them with Nagios with the following requirements For each step report the ‘run_status’. Provide date arithmetic to determine a time span for when the step was last run in days. Return a status of Critical if the run_status is  reported as … More Monitor the status of SQL Server Agent jobs with 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!”