[python-win32] Can't import wmi in scripts run by nrpe_nt

[Tim Golden]

[Wyvern List]
| When nagios calls nrpe_nt on a remote machine with a specific 
| command to execute, the nrpe_nt service maps the nagios command 
| to a specific command to be executed on the windows box. 
| for example nrpe_nt might have a definition to map the nagios 
| command 'check_disk' to a command such as 
| "C:\Python23\python.exe C:\NRPE_NT\bin\DiskFree.py"
| 
| The aforementioned DiskFree.py is a simple python script I nabbed from
| Tim Golden's "WMI Cookbook" that uses the wmi module. It works like a
| charm when called locally, but when called by nrpe_nt the script bombs
| out with the non-helpful message:
| 
| tombstone libexec # ./check_nrpe -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -c check_python
| Traceback (most recent call last):

I'm not sure I understand what's happening here. Is my understanding
of the scenario correct?

On machine A you can run some Nagios command on machine A
which indirectly runs diskfree.py on machine A, invoking WMI 
on machine A etc. This works.

On machine A you run some Nagios command on machine B
which indirectly runs diskfree.py on machine B, invoking WMI
on machine B. This gies some error.

In none of this are you trying to invoke WMI remotely.

Is this correct?

TJG

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