I have created a custom script with perl. But I am unable to use it in nagios with nrpe to monitor remote system.

On the host its working fine but with nagios its throwing error:

Can any one guide me how to add custom script to use with nrpe remote linux ??

Putting that into Google pulls up lots. First three hits for "custom script to use with nrpe remote"
http://blog.gnucom.cc/2009/event-han...os-using-nrpe/
http://docs.icinga.org/latest/en/nrpe.html
http://www.the-tech-tutorial.com/?p=816

...and the error pulls up:
http://nazeems.wordpress.com/2012/03...er-10-seconds/

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I outlined the necessary steps here...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post4830764

Your version of "my_cool_script.sh" [cw]ould be "my_cool_script.pl

The check_nrpe utility is THE MOST BASIC troubleshooting tool they have:
on every host that needs monitoring.

Once those 2 work, you can further test interactivity from the nagios host with References:
http://debianclusters.org/index.php/..._Configuration
http://www.crucialwebhost.com/blog/u...mote-services/
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/nagiosconfig.htm

HTH, somewhat.

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Habitual, thanks for the reply.

All these work fine except you last step:

According to you this should work from the nagios server.

But in some of the plugins you dont have to add the command in the nagios server's nrpe.cfg file, but only in the remote machin's nrpe.cfg.

for example:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory...a-2Epl/details

According to the above link I added that plugin in remote system's nrpe.cfg and added that command in the host.cfg(remote system's) in the nagios server.

And its working fine on the nagios page, though the your last step doesn't work in this case.

Similarly my created plugin doesn't need to be defined in the nagios server's nrpe.cfg but in the remote system's nrpe.cfg and the command to be defined in remotehoste.cfg in nagios server,that's what I have done and it throws error on the nagios page.

Ohh I forgot to add the fullpath of the command in the sudo file of the remote system but only added the path to perl for user nagios.

I added that and it works fine.

Thanks to TBone and Habitual for the reply.

You are very welcome.
Glad it worked out!