Help on CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon.

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Fri Jun 24 20:13:22 CEST 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Kindy Sylla
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 12:42 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Help on CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from
daemon.
> 
> Hello,
> I am trying to monitor remote host using nrpe and i am
> having the following : CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes
> from daemon.
> 
> On the remote host, nrpe is listening on port 5666.
> netstat -pta return
> ...
> tcp        0      0 *:nrpe                  *:*
>              LISTEN      3088/nrpe
> tcp        0      0 monedia:42670           *:*
>              LISTEN      3414/xinetd
> 
> The nrpe is running as standalone daemon. No way to
> run it under xinetd. I tried everything i know,
> followed all the steps.
> I am using nrpe-2.0b5 and nagios1-2 on mandrake linux
> 10.1.
> I hope someone can help!!!!

Is your nagios host listed as an allowed_hosts in nrpe.cfg? Can you
manually telnet from your nagios host to your nrpe host on port 5666?
Have you tried enabling debug in nrpe.cfg? If the first two are correct,
the last should direct you to what you need to fix.

--
Marc


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