Cross-platform difficulties with NRPE

Brian Emord emord at usc.edu
Fri Mar 26 02:22:48 CET 2004


On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

>Brian Emord wrote:
>> Greetings,
<snip my idiocy>
>
>I'm guessing the nrpe binaries on Solaris aren't compiled with
>ssl-support, which means they'll get encrypted packages but try to treat
>them as plaintext.
>

This was exactly the problem. Our resident nagios person told me that
ssl wasn't on by default, I guess I should have investigated closer. Got
it re-compiled with ssl on, and it works fine. Thank you for the advice.

>Also, make sure any firewall sitting between them allows traffic back
>and forth (yes, some people actually miss that).
>
At first this is what I thought was the problem (well something
similar), but didn't want to bother the list until I exhausted all of
(what I thought) the possibilities.

>
>--
>Sourcerer / Andreas Ericsson
>OP5 AB
>+46 (0)733 709032
>andreas.ericsson at op5.se
>
>

-Brian



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