{"id":991,"date":"2017-11-22T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dbafox.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2018-03-13T14:05:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:05:33","slug":"linux-run-remote-powershell-from-nagios-nrpe_check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbafox.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Linux &#8211; Run remote Powershell from Nagios &#8211; nrpe_check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I experienced a strange problem when calling Powershell from nagios to<br \/>\ncheck failover cluster status.<\/p>\n<p>Note &#8211; using old NRPE_NT nagios agent &#8211; no problem with NSClient++.<\/p>\n<p>The Get-Cluster cmdlet failed each time the script was executed.<br \/>\nI thought this was related to the fact that this cmdlet requires elevated privieges,<br \/>\nbut this was not the case. The issue occurred because NRPE_NT is running as a 32-bit program<br \/>\nand this calls 32-bit cmd, which calls 32-bit Powershell.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to run 64-bit Powershell and use 64-bit Powershell commands,<br \/>\nfrom nagios, 64-bit powershell must be executed. This means that C:\\WINDOWS\\sysnative<br \/>\nis required.<\/p>\n<p>nrpe.cfg on Windows<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\ncommand[failover-cluster-check]=C:\\WINDOWS\\sysnative\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe &#8220;&amp; path\\check_1.ps1&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>if not using NSClient++<br \/>\n&#8211; the NRPE_NT service is running as a 32-bit executable<br \/>\n&#8211; it runs cmd as 32-bit<br \/>\n&#8211; 32-bit cmd calls 32-bit powershell unless  C:\\WINDOWS\\sysnative\\ is used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I experienced a strange problem when calling Powershell from nagios to check failover cluster status. 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