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I try to monitor MySQL database:

[root@monitored.com ~]# su nagios -c /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mysql Uptime: 18014 Threads: 1 Questions: 6 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 12 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 6 Queries per second avg: 0.000

but I've got unexpected error:

[ec2-user@monitoring.com ~]$ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H monitored.com -c check_mysql NRPE: Unable to read output

What's wrong?

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One of the best things to try first is to run check_nrpe -H hostname to see if you get a version string back or the same error. If you get a version string, then a problem exists with the invocation of the plugin or the plugin itself. If you get the same error, then something is wrong with the nrpe configuration or Nagios's ability to talk to it. Also, tt's all too easy to forget to restart nrpe after making a config change - you'll want to make sure that's not the case here. – Larold Sep 14 '11 at 19:47

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From Nagios NRPE Documentation:

The check_nrpe plugin returns "NRPE: Unable to read output"

This error indicates that the command that was run by the NRPE daemon did not return any character output. This could be an indication of the following problems:

– An incorrectly defined command line in the command definition. Verify that the command definition in your NRPE configuration file is correct.

– The plugin that is specified in the command line is malfunctioning. Run the command line manually to make sure the plugin returns some kind of text output.

More details here http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf

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I've never liked this excerpt from the NRPE documentation, because about 70% of the time I get this error, a condition is occurring which is not covered by any of the scenarios in the document. – Larold Sep 14 '11 at 19:47

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