Actions don't work as expected in Win8 (64b) / nagstamon 0.9.11 about nagstamon HOT 14 CLOSED

Can you send me your action snippet from $HOME/.nagstamon/actions/<your_action>.conf?

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Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply!

It's set to IP, as mentioned in the ticket. For the PING action, I've used string = ping $ADDRESS$ as per your example on the website. When I try the built-in RDP command, it says 'Invalid connectionfile ()" where is the host_name variable in Nagios (which isn't something that can be resolved, as we use this host_name field for a hostname which we prepend with a cmdb number.

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Strange, I get an "Invalid connectionfile(192.168.0.1)" - no hostname inside, just plain IP. Your error message has the empty brackets? So no hostname at all? What monitor server type and version do you use?
The hostname is also evaluated on a service so checking a service is not the problem.

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I have a hostname between de ()'s but that hostname doesn't resolve (that's why I want the IP there). I use nagios 3.3.1

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Enable debugging and if you start an action look into debugging output. There should be a line containing "IP of :". Would be interesting what URLs are called around that and what the content of that URLs. The IP should be displayed on these URLs where Nagstamon tries to get it ot from there (see https://github.com/HenriWahl/Nagstamon/blob/master/Nagstamon/Nagstamon/Server/Generic.py#L1120 and following).

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Hi,

I've enabled debugging and restarted nagstamon but the only thing happening is that it creates a 0 byte empty textfile in the location I specified. I restarted nagstamon, tried a few actions, but the file is still empty.

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This is bad. Why on earth... I tried with Windows 8 and Nagstamon debugging. I noticed that the log file gets filled after exitng Nagstamon. Can you try it this way?

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Oh! Derp, you're right. It indeed fills the log AFTER quitting nagstamon.

So, without revealing too much info (which I can send offlist, if you want), it looks like this:

DEBUG: 2013-09-25 14:17:07.218000 Nagios 1111-HOSTNAME disk Clicked context menu: RDP
DEBUG: 2013-09-25 14:17:07.219000 Nagios FetchURL: http://NAGIOSURL/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=1&host=1111-HOSTNAME CGI Data: None
DEBUG: 2013-09-25 14:17:08.343000 Nagios 1111-HOSTNAME IP of 1111-HOSTNAME: IP, 1111-HOSTNAME
DEBUG: 2013-09-25 14:17:08.343000 Nagios 1111-HOSTNAME disk ACTION: COMMAND C:\windows\system32\mstsc.exe IP, 1111-HOSTNAME

HOSTNAME is obviously replaced, as is IP and NAGIOSURL. It comes down to the fact it sees the IP, HOSTNAME as IP. The 1111- is the CMDB number which we use in the host_name variable to indicate which server this is.

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Can you check at the page http://NAGIOSURL/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=1&host=1111-HOSTNAME if there is any IP information displayed?

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Yep, it's there in the same format as nagstamon sees it. Can I contact you outside this public issuetracker with some uneditted screens to make this clearer? :-)

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Yes, mail address is at http://nagstamon.ifw-dresden.de/contact/

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Sent you an email!

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Fixed in newer version?

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To be tested... but I read our mail conversation as a local problem which I cannot fix.

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