Severall issues with nsclient++

argie01 · October 15, 2008, 4:10pm

Hi,

I’ve installed Nagios 3.03 in Ubuntu 8.04, and NSClient+±Win32-0.3.5 in my clients W2000 and W2003.
The problem I have with NSClient is I always get this error:

NSClient - ERROR: Invalid password.

The NSC.ini I have the default configuration, execpt in these lines:

FileLogger.dll
CheckSystem.dll
CheckDisk.dll
NSClientListener.dll
NRPEListener.dll
SysTray.dll
CheckEventLog.dll
CheckHelpers.dll
;CheckWMI.dll

[Settings]
;# ALLOWED HOST ADDRESSES
allowed_hosts=

[NSClient]
;# ALLOWED HOST ADDRESSES
allowed_hosts=
;
;# NSCLIENT PORT NUMBER
port=12489

I don’t use password configuration neither in nsc.ini and in the windows,cfg

Thank you for your help.

Argie

Eyepodder · October 15, 2008, 4:25pm

It’s in the SCI.ini file under the settings section. uncomment the password=secret-password

[Settings]
;# OBFUSCATED PASSWORD
; This is the same as the password option but here you can store the password in an obfuscated manner.
; NOTICE obfuscation is NOT the same as encryption, someone with access to this file can still figure out the
; password. Its just a bit harder to do it at first glance.
;obfuscated_password=Jw0KAUUdXlAAUwASDAAB
;
;# PASSWORD
; This is the password (-s) that is required to access NSClient remotely. If you leave this blank everyone will be able to access the daemon remotly.
;password=secret-password

Change the password to whatever you are using in the commands.cfg file
define command{
command_name check_nt
command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 12489 -s PASSWORD -v $ARG1$ $ARG2$
}

argie01 · October 15, 2008, 8:10pm

But I’m not using any password in my Nagios configuration?
So, why should I uncomment that line?

argie01 · October 16, 2008, 11:41am

I’m afraid I still have this problem
I’ve uncommented the line

;# PASSWORD
password=

Even using a blank password I get the same error (running check_nt manually) :

./check_nt -v USEDDISKSPACE -l C -H 192.168.x.x -w 80 -c 90

“Conexion rechazada. Could not fetch information from server”.

In nsc.ini, under “settings” and under “nsclient” I have the following line uncommented:
*
allowed_hosts=*

thank you.

argie01 · October 17, 2008, 12:57pm

Hi,

I still have this problem. There is not way to get a connection to the nsclient.
I’ve run the command nsclient++ /test and I always got this error (on line “Socket.h(668)”):

[code]D:\NSClient+±Win32-0.3.5>nsclient++ /test
Launching test mode - client mode
Service seems to be started, this is probably not a good idea…
l \NSClient++.cpp(370) Attempting to start NSCLient++ - 0.3.5.2 2008-09-24
d \NSClient++.cpp(773) Loading plugin: CheckDisk…
d \NSClient++.cpp(773) Loading plugin: Event log Checker…
d \NSClient++.cpp(773) Loading plugin: Helper function…
d \NSClient++.cpp(773) Loading plugin: CheckSystem…
d \NSClient++.cpp(773) Loading plugin: File logger…
d \PDHCollector.cpp(66) Autodetected w2k or later, using w2k PDH counters.
l \FileLogger.cpp(93) Log path is: D:\NSClient+±Win32-0.3.5\nsclient.log
d \PDHCollector.cpp(103) Using index to retrive counternames
d \NSClient++.cpp(773) Loading plugin: NSClient server…
d \NSClient++.cpp(773) Loading plugin: SystemTray…
e \Socket.h(645) bind failed: 10048: S

Strides · October 17, 2008, 3:12pm

Conexion rechazada. Could not fetch information from server
is not the same error as
**NSClient - ERROR: Invalid password. **

You have configured nsclient to run on port 12489 so you need to specify the port with -p 12489 with check_nt

[blockquote];# NSCLIENT PORT NUMBER
; This is the port the NSClientListener.dll will listen to.
port=12489 [/blockquote]
[blockquote]
[root@localhost libexec]# ./check_nt --help | grep port
Usage:check_nt -H host -v variable -p port] -w warning] -c critical]-l params] -d SHOWALL] -t timeout]
-p, --port=INTEGER
Optional port number (default: 1248)

Default port 1248 is sometimes in use by other services[/blockquote]

HTH

/S

shiv · October 21, 2008, 6:52am

hi,

I ecently installed Nagios and wanted to monitor windows 2003 server. I installed the NSClient++ in the server to be monitored.Nagios is showing the folliowinng error message. Can you please help me out.

CPU Load UNKNOWN 10-21-2008 12:16:40 0d 0h 28m 18s 3/3 NSClient - ERROR: Could not get data for 5 perhaps we don’t collect data this far back?

Memory Usage UNKNOWN 10-21-2008 12:18:37 0d 0h 26m 21s 3/3 NSClient - ERROR: Failed to get PDH value.

Uptime UNKNOWN 10-21-2008 12:20:35 0d 0h 25m 53s 3/3 NSClient - ERROR: Could not get value