Help NRPE 1.8 won't work

[Brian Kosick]

Make sure that you have edited the nrpe.cfg file correctly, it has a 
"Allow connections from this IP" variable.

Hagen Deike wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I need a little help on nrpe 1.8
>I Installed nrpe on a Linux Box running Nagios and a HP/UX Server with the
>nrpe daemon.
>
>On the HP/UX Server the nrpe exec is installed in /usr/sbin. Path is set
>correct.
>The config file is in /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg
>nrpe is loaded in inetd.conf
>
> nrpe stream tcp nowait daemon /usr/sbin/nrpe -c
>/usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
>
>If I open a telnet to the server on port 5666 I get a message back from
>nrpe.
>There is a entry in nrpe.cfg for following command
>
> command[check_load]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load -w 15,10,5 -c
>30,25,20
>
>Running the plugin on the shell is OK
>
> $ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load -w 15,10,5 -c 30,25,20
> OK - load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.20
>
>But as soon as I try to use the check_nrpe plugin I get an error...
>
> me at mon:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins> ./check_nrpe -H 10.x.x.x -c check_load
> CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes.  Are we allowed to connect to the host?
>
>
>What's wrong with it???
>
>Regards,
>Hagen Deike
>
>
>
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