Problem With New Client

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:

> Hi there --
>
> I am attempting to add a new client to be monitored by Nagios but for some
> reason the new client is refusing connection from the Nagios server.
>
> The NRPE client is version 1.8, while the Nagios server is version 1.2.
>
> The plugins that I downloaded and installed are version 1.4. I ran the configure
> and make commands when compiling the plugins and then I went
> to the  plugins directory and copied the files to the /usr/local/nagios/libexec
> directory on the client.
>
> The nrpe.cfg file that I used was one that I ftp'd over from another system,
> albeit a SPARC platform running Aurora Linux 1.0, and modified the
> file to better fit the system that it was copied onto.
>
> The /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe file is just like those on other systems, and it
> specifically allows the nagios server to make connections to it.
>
> I have stopped and restarted the xinetd service as well as restarted the client
> machine without success. Can anyone help? Thanks.
>

if you probe the tcp port for nrpe - do you get a connection?

what happens if you run nrpe in daemon mode rather than thru xinetd?

-sg


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