help on NRPE

Wade Arnold wade at eccentrichosting.net
Tue Nov 12 18:34:31 CET 2002


Check /val/log/messages on the host that you are tying to connect to. It
should show the process starting. Once you know it has started it may throw
some exceptions when the nagios tries to connect. It may also not start up
properly and that will also be noted in the log file.

Good luck;
wade 

On 11/12/02 9:3heck 1 AM, "Subhendu Ghosh" <sghosh at sghosh.org> wrote:

> Any log messages?  command line options?, nrpe.cfg snippet ?
> 
> -sg
> 
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 nadine.vandois at bull.net wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have installed nagios and nrpe.
>> 
>> nagios runs correctly.
>> 
>> But I have some difficulty with nrpe.
>> 
>> I have declared one check_nrpe service on my nagios host, and a nrpe
>> daemon. And I have declared nrpe daemon on another host, as described, and
>> with using current users service on distant host.
>> 
>> When I test that,
>> at first, I got 'state unkown'.
>> I then tried to put 'printf ...' in check_nrpe.c.and recompiled.
>> After many printf insertions, I got 'state OK' - (No output !) (on web
>> interface and log files on nagios host).
>> 
>> May some one have already meet this situation and may help me to understand
>> what happens ?
>> And how can I have a more detail answer than: 'No output!'  ?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Nadine
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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