NRPE on AIX client: "Are we allowed to connect to the host?"

Mukarram Syed muksyed at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 8 19:55:08 CEST 2005


One more note. nrpe is listening:

root at elux-oems:/# netstat -a |grep nrpe
tcp4       0      0  *.nrpe                 *.*       
            LISTEN

--- Mukarram Syed <muksyed at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
> I am trying to configure NRPE on an AIX client. 
> Nagios Server is Solaris.  
> When I try to telnet to port 5666, it connects but
> it
> immediately drops the connection.
> When I run the check_nrpe command from the solaris
> host, I am getting the following:
> root at gallileo:/# /opt/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe
> elux-oems -c check_load
> CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes.  Are we allowed to
> connect to the host?
> 
> I researched this error in Nagios and checked &
> rechecked my inetd.conf "nrpe" section.  Port 5666
> is
> in the /etc/services file.  
> First time trying to run nrpe on AIX.  Very much
> used
> to Solaris and Linux.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Mukarram Syed.
> 
> root at elux-oems:/# grep nrpe /etc/inetd.conf
> nrpe    stream  tcp     nowait  nobody 
> /opt/nagios/libexec/nrpe /opt/nagios/libexec/nrpe -c
> /opt/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
> root at elux-oems:/# ls -lrt /opt/nagios/libexec/nrpe
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 nobody   nobody       143379 May 19
> 2004  /opt/nagios/libexec/nrpe*
> root at elux-oems:/# ls -lart /opt/nagios/libexec/nrpe
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 nobody   nobody       143379 May 19
> 2004  /opt/nagios/libexec/nrpe*
> root at elux-oems:/# ls -lart /opt/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody         3810 Apr 06
> 11:00 /opt/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg
> root at elux-oems:/# grep 5666 /etc/services
> nrpe            5666/tcp                        #
> NRPE
> 
> 
> 
> 
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