Anyone use Nagios? Need some help.

[Rick Stevens]

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We use Nagios to monitor our systems as well as those of our customers. 
> Nagios seems very daunting at first, but it really wasn't that difficult
> to setup.  It's a great tool.  However, the mailing list isn't that
> helpful, so that's why I've come here.  Since this list receives a lot
> of traffic, I was hoping that perhaps someone could help me out with a
> Nagios plugin I'm having trouble using.
> 
> What follows is the original message I posted to the Nagios pluging
> mailing list on July 20:
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to use the "check_rpc" plugin to check the status of NFS
> running on a server.  I've read the documentation for the plugin and
> tested it in a terminal, like so:
> 
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_rpc -H localhost -C nfs
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_rpc -H localhost -C nfs -p 2049
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_rpc -H localhost -C nfs -p 2049 -u
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_rpc -H localhost -C nfs -p 2049 -t
> 
> No matter how I run it, the program returns this:
> 
> Can't fork for rpcinfo: No such file or directory
> 
> Adding a "-v" for verbose output gives me this:
> 
> -u localhost 100003  2>&1 |
> Can't fork for rpcinfo: No such file or directory
> 
> NFS is definitely running (I've double checked).  I've googled for the
> error messages, but all I've managed to locate so far is a page with the
> source code for the plugin itself.
> 
> The error seems to be saying that it can't find the rpcinfo binary, but
> it's on my system in /usr/sbin/.  I've run rpcinfo a few times (i.e.
> rpcinfo -p) to see if anything is reported, and it is working (it shows
> nfs plus a few other services).
> 
> Has anyone come across this before?  Have I found a bug?
> 
> Here is additional info:
> 
> - Fedora Core 1 running 2.4.22-1.2197.nptlsmp
> - nagios-plugins-nrpe-2.0-3.rhfc1.dag
> - nagios-1.2-0.rhfc1.dag
> - nagios-plugins-1.3.1-10.rhfc1.dag
> 
> Thanks in advance,

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