Category Archives: Nagios

Nagios wrapper.vbs(0, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Path not found in check_files.vbs

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Juergen Caris

I had this error message today and wasn’t able to easily fix it. It took me a while to find out that this was caused by spaces in the folder names. Although I had the whole path in double quotes … Continue reading →

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Nagios email stopped working after changing the relay mailserver

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Juergen Caris

My colleague mentioned the other day that our Nagios monitoring was very quiet for the last couple of days. I checked the maillog on the Nagios server, to see that all the mails were in status ‘Sent’. A closer look … Continue reading →

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CHECK_NRPE: Error – Could not complete SSL handshake

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Juergen Caris

After installing NRPE on a newly build RHEL 6.3 server I saw this error message. I checked the xinetd configuration file /etc/xinet.d/nrpe and changed the following values: disable = no only_from = 10.1.0.30 I tried to restart xinetd to propagate … Continue reading →

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Nagios NRPE Error: Service check command … not defined …

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Juergen Caris

After installing NRPE on a cluster I saw this error although the service, check_cups in that case, could be executed locally. Other NRPE checks could be executed remotely without errors. After checking the nrpe.cfg file in /etc/nagios I saw the … Continue reading →

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