nrpe.cfg question

[Andreas Ericsson]

wim.degeeter at bt.com wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> In the nrpe.cfg you can define (with 'allowed_hosts') which server is
> allowed to access to the Nagios port to check the commands. When I
> want that no pre-defined IP address can access this port what do I
> have to do. When I uncomment this option I've got this error: Host 'IP Address'
> is not allowed to talk to us.
>  
This is, as of yet, unsupported in NRPE. I'm adding support to allow 
ranges of IP-addresses (including wildcard), but insofar, it's not 
supported.

> Any ideas ??
>  

To hack your way quickly around it, you can add a line saying
return(TRUE);
to the top of the is_allowed_host() function in nrpe.c.

> Thanks and regards,
> Wim 

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OP5 AB
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andreas.ericsson at op5.se


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