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

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Fri Apr 8 20:29:30 CEST 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mukarram Syed
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 12:36 PM
> To: Nagios-Mailing-List
> Subject: [Nagios-users] NRPE on AIX client: "Are we allowed to connect
to
> the host?"
> 
> 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?

Did you add the IP for your solaris box to the allowed_hosts in
nrpe.cfg? You may also need to add it to hosts.allow (if such a file
exists under AIX). You should probably be seeing some kind of error via
syslog on your AIX box, either from inetd or nrpe indicating why the
connection was dropped.

--
Marc


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