[Nagios-users] check_ssh and check_smtp

[Michael Hallager]

When I run these commands at the prompt it works.



When I run them via Nagios, it displays "Invalid hostname/address - $ "



It appears to be to do with the way they're called:

command[check_smtp]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_smtp -H
$HOSTADDRESS$

command[check_ssh]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ssh -H $HOSTADDRESS$



as per the nagios-plugins commands.cfg file.



Is $HOSTADDRESS$" an invalid variable?

[Marc Powell]

Post by Michael Hallager
When I run these commands at the prompt it works.
When I run them via Nagios, it displays “Invalid hostname/address -
$ “
command[check_smtp]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_smtp -H
$HOSTADDRESS$
command[check_ssh]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ssh -H
$HOSTADDRESS$

What does the object file (template) versions of these commands look
like? Nagios hasn't used this command format since the pre-1.0/
Netsaint days. I would hazard a guess that the $HOSTADDRESS$ macro
there is somehow spelled incorrectly.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#command

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Marc