Nsclient - nsca - host_check

Nagios
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hey everybody!

I’ve configured some clients to use the nsca to send data to Nagios since I’m not able to connect from server to the client. I was able to achieve like everything I wanted, but one last thing is not exactly how I would like.

The host check / status information is not appending a message I want. This is my nsclient.ini conf:

[/settings/scheduler/schedules]
host_check = Check_OK
;host_check = Check_OK “OK”

And in the nagios server I see these messages:

Jun 30 06:52:02 localhost nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_HOST_CHECK_RESULT;client;0;No message
Jun 30 06:57:16 localhost nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_HOST_CHECK_RESULT;client;0;No message
Jun 30 07:02:31 localhost nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_HOST_CHECK_RESULT;client;0;No message
Jun 30 07:11:17 localhost nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_HOST_CHECK_RESULT;client;3;Invalid command line: unrecognised option 'OK'
Jun 30 07:11:17 localhost nagios: Error: External command failed -> PROCESS_HOST_CHECK_RESULT;client;3;Invalid command line: unrecognised option 'OK'
Jun 30 07:11:17 localhost nagios: External command [1656573077] PROCESS_HOST_CHECK_RESULT;client;3;Invalid command line: unrecognised option 'OK' returned error Command failed

So, when I use the “OK” I get that 3 invalid command line: unrecognised option ‘OK’ and when I don’t use any message I got that 0 No message.

Any thought what I’m doing wrong here?
nsclient version = NSCP-0.5.2.35-x64

Thanks!

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It gave me some hard time to figure out but after deciding to check the documentation I tried couple other stuff and ended up with this way to get that message passed along:

host_check = check_ok message=OK

This way Nagios UI I can see the Status Information for the host as “OK” and how I was expecting.

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