Plug-in scripts not reporting accurately

Nagios Nagios Configuration support
1

I’m running Nagios 3.0.6 on SuSE SLES 11, SP1.

I’ve noticed many of the plug-in scripts don’t appear to be reporting accurately. For example, the check_users plug-in is using these parameters in the services.cfg: check_users!30!50! and is defined in the commands.cfg as: $USER1$/check_users -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$

However, it reports there are two users on every system it checks, even when no one is logged in.

Another example is the check_swap plug-in. In the commands.cfg it’s listed as: $USER1$/check_swap -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$
In the services.cfg it’s listed as: check_swap!20%!10%!

Every server is showing: SWAP OK - 100% free (6143 MB out of 6143 MB)
However, vmstat at the server shows:
procs -----------memory---------- —swap-- -----io---- -system-- -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
3 0 2059044 14671008 132908 11640904 0 4 1 11 14 43 42 10 47 0 0

Am I doing something wrong?

2

check_users is a LOCAL plugin. it will tell you how manyu users are logged on the system it runs on (the nagios system)
You need to run it on the remote server, either via NSCA,NRPE or by check_by_ssh.

Luca

3

Thanks.