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

[Mukarram Syed]

Thanks all.
I got it to work.  
Some problem in the nrpe.cfg file.  Commented
everything except the check stuff and the port number
and it worked.
-Mukarram.


--- Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----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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