This last instuction worked for me! Well this is the last one I read for now anyway Thank you. Mark

I am trying to execute the following check to exclude some databases in the “database-backup-age” mode..

Do I need to set:

use_regexp_matching=1 ?

I also have:

illegal_object_name_chars=~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()= illegal_macro_output_chars=~$&|’”<>

define service{ use generic-service host_name van-sql02 service_description Elapsed time in hours since a database was last backupped check_command check_van-sql02_backup!database-backup-age!24!48 process_perf_data 1 } define command{ command_name check_van-sql02_backup command_line $USER1$/check_mssql_health -t 10 –hostname 172.16.x.xxx –username app_xxxxx –password xxxxx –mode $ARG1$ —-warning $ARG2$ –critical $ARG3$ –name=”^(?!(tempdb))” –regexp }

My notification output comes up as:

Additional Info: (null)

It works if manually ran from shell the shell.

Keep up the good work!

1) please visit http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=EN

2) past the below url

http://labs.consol.de/nagios/check_mssql_health/

3) select your destination language, source language is german

4) wait for few min, you will see the output in the language you prefered

Regards Chandra

In case any one wants to rest of this here it is:

I call a bash script as the nagios command.

This script has all the funky date stuff because the datetime stamp used with this particular SQL2005 DB is not in (what I would say), the proper format. But, it is what it is so I had to deal with it. It does NOT deal with date time ranges that span one day to the day before, nor the month before: we will only be running this script during daylight hours anyway.

What this does is let us know if our website shopping cart has had at least 1 order in the last hour. Which should be a clear indication that our shopping cart is properly functional.

!/bin/bash

month=$(echo $(date +%_m)) day=$(echo $(date +%_d)) year=$(echo $(date +%_Y)) hour=$(date +%l) minute=$(date +%M) second=$(date +%S) ampm=$(date +%p) timestamp=$(echo $hour:$minute:$second) lasthour=$(echo “$hour – 1″|bc)

if [ $lasthour = 12 ]; then if [ $ampm = PM ]; then lastampm=AM else lastampm=PM fi else lastampm=$ampm fi

lasttimestamp=$(echo $lasthour:$minute:$second)

timeNow=”$month/$day/$year $timestamp $ampm” timeLast=”$month/$day/$year $lasttimestamp $lastampm”

/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_mssql_health –hostname=ipAddress –username=username –password=password –name2=hourlyorders –warning=1: –critical=1: –mode sql –name “SELECT count(*) FROM DBNAME.dbo.Orders WHERE OrderDate >= ‘$timeLast’ AND OrderDate < ‘$timeNow’”

Solved this myself after reading almost all above comments.

./check_mssql_health –hostname=ipAddress –username=username –password=password –mode sql –name “SELECT count(*) FROM DBNAME.dbo.Orders WHERE OrderDate >= ’3/5/2011 1:00:00 PM’ AND OrderDate < ’3/5/2011 2:01:00 PM’” –name2=ordernumber

OK – ordernumber: 0 | ‘ordernumber’=0;1;5

Whew. Awesome tool! Dan

./check_mssql_health –hostname=ipAddress –username=username –password=password –name DBNAME –name2 OrderNumber –mode sql “SELECT count(*) FROM Orders WHERE OrderDate >= ’3/5/2011 1:00:00 PM’ AND OrderDate < ’3/5/2011 1:01:00 PM’”

expected result should show a value of: 0

Error Message: DBD::Sybase::st execute failed: Server message number=2812 severity=16 state=62 line=1 server=ServerName text=Could not find stored procedure ‘DNAME’. at ./check_mssql_health line 2212. Use of uninitialized value $value in numeric gt (>) at ./check_mssql_health line 1510. Use of uninitialized value $value in numeric gt (>) at ./check_mssql_health line 1511. OK – ordernumber:

using check_mssql works (but it’s options are limiting) from: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Databases/SQLServer/check_mssql/details

Thanks. Dan

First of all, thanks for your plugin.

I have found a problem and I cannot go further. Could you help me?

Im doing this test with the –mode=deadlock and I am getting this error:

The result in nagios is (Return code of 127 is out of bounds – plugin may be missing)

If I use database-free, cpu-busy, io-busy it works perfectly.

If I launch this check in a shell i get this result:

check_mssql_health –hostname SERVER –username .\\sqlnagioscheck –password test –port 2618 –mode=locks-waits OK – 0.0000 lock waits / sec for _Total, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for RID, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for Page, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for Object, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for Metadata, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for Key, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for HoBT, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for File, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for Extent, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for Database, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for Application, 0.0000 lock waits / sec for AllocUnit | _Total_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 RID_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 Page_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 Object_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 Metadata_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 Key_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 HoBT_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 File_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 Extent_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 Database_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 Application_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500 AllocUnit_lock_waits_per_sec=0.0000;100;500

Any idea? Regards.

just one question regarding mode “database-backup-age”. Is there a chance to check specific databases for their backup-age and not “all” databases? To check only one you can give “-name “, but I couldn’t find any possibility to check like 2 or 3 databases.

Thanks in advance,

nms