I experienced a strange problem when calling Powershell from nagios to
\ncheck failover cluster status.<\/p>\n
Note – using old NRPE_NT nagios agent – no problem with NSClient++.<\/p>\n
The Get-Cluster cmdlet failed each time the script was executed.
\nI thought this was related to the fact that this cmdlet requires elevated privieges,
\nbut this was not the case. The issue occurred because NRPE_NT is running as a 32-bit program
\nand this calls 32-bit cmd, which calls 32-bit Powershell.<\/p>\n
If you want to run 64-bit Powershell and use 64-bit Powershell commands,
\nfrom nagios, 64-bit powershell must be executed. This means that C:\\WINDOWS\\sysnative
\nis required.<\/p>\n
nrpe.cfg on Windows
\n….
\ncommand[failover-cluster-check]=C:\\WINDOWS\\sysnative\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe “& path\\check_1.ps1”
\n….<\/p>\n
if not using NSClient++
\n– the NRPE_NT service is running as a 32-bit executable
\n– it runs cmd as 32-bit
\n– 32-bit cmd calls 32-bit powershell unless C:\\WINDOWS\\sysnative\\ is used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I experienced a strange problem when calling Powershell from nagios to check failover cluster status. Note – using old NRPE_NT nagios agent – no problem with NSClient++. The Get-Cluster cmdlet failed each time the script was executed. I thought this … Continue reading