NRPE

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Mon Sep 19 22:54:12 CEST 2005


Hello,
Do you have the nagios user on your remote server ?

reg,

Jonathan Carpenter wrote:

> I have installed nagios and configured nagios on one server to monitor 
> several servers with the check_ping plugin. Everything works great now 
> I have installed NRPE on one of the remote servers running Fedora 4. I 
> have edited /etc/services and added the following
>  
> nrpe     5666/tcp     # NRPE
>  
> and created a file in /etc/xinetd.d/ called nrpe the contents in it are
>  
>  # default: on
>  # description: NRPE
>  service nrpe
>  {
>          flags           = REUSE
>          socket_type     = stream       
>          wait            = no
>          user            = nagios
>          server          = /home/nagios/nrpe
>          server_args     = -c /home/nagios/nrpe --inetd
>          log_on_failure  += USERID
>          disable         = no
>   only_from       =  1.2.3.4 <http://1.2.3.4> <-- ip to nagios server
>  }
>   When I run /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart I get these errors in 
> /var/log/messages
> Sep 17 02:56:19 db1 xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
> Sep 17 02:56:19 db1 xinetd[18797]: bind failed (Address already in use 
> (errno = 98)). service = nrpe
> Sep 17 02:56:19 db1 xinetd[18797]: Service nrpe failed to start and is 
> deactivated.
> Sep 17 02:56:19 db1 xinetd[18797]: xinetd Version 2.3.13 started with 
> libwrap loadavg options compiled in.
> Sep 17 02:56:19 db1 xinetd[18797]: Started working: 0 available services
>  
>    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> -- 
> Jonathan Carpenter



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