AIX NRPE questions

[Berg,David]

Hmm... 127.0.0.1 is in the allowed_hosts, but "telnet localhost 5666"
isn't connecting:
> telnet localhost 5666
Trying...
Connected to loopback.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed.

-----Original Message-----
From: kyleodonnell at gmail.com [mailto:kyleodonnell at gmail.com] On Behalf
Of kyle.odonnell at gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:35 PM
To: Berg,David
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] AIX NRPE questions

add 127.0.0.1 in the allowed_hosts and telnet localhost 5666 still
nothing?

On 6/5/07, Berg,David <David.Berg at cerner.com> wrote:
> No, just trying both and neither works.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kyleodonnell at gmail.com [mailto:kyleodonnell at gmail.com] On Behalf

> Of kyle.odonnell at gmail.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:24 PM
> To: Berg,David
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] AIX NRPE questions
>
> Are you running from inetd AND trying to start in daemon mode?
>
> If so, that's your problem.  It's one or the other.
>
> --kyleo
> On 6/5/07, Berg,David <David.Berg at cerner.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I was hoping someone might have some advice for me regarding 
> > monitoring AIX nodes.
> >
> > I am attempting to get NRPE 2.8.1 running on AIX 5.3, so far without

> > any luck.
> >
> > Following the NRPE.pdf documentation 
> > (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf), I was able to 
> > configure without ssl and install using the GCC compiler. I then 
> > added
>
> > a line to the /etc/inetd.conf file as follows:
> >
> > nrpe    stream  tcp     nowait  nagios  /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe
-c
> > /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -I
> >
> > Added this to /etc/services:
> > nrpe                     5666/tcp               # NRPE for Nagios
> >
> > Netstat looks good:
> > netstat -at | grep nrpe
> > tcp4       0      0  *.nrpe                 *.*
> > LISTEN
> >
> > I also added the ip address of the local node to the nrpe.cfg file 
> > and
>
> > have confirmed that the nagios user and group own the related 
> > directories and files.
> >
> > However, when I try to start nrpe, via the command line or by 
> > refreshing inetd, it doesn't start and doesn't give me any errors. 
> > For
> example:
> >
> > /etc> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg 
> > -i /etc> ps -ef | grep nrpe
> >     root 2072804 2019568   0 15:47:11  pts/1  0:00 grep nrpe
> > /etc> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg 
> > -d /etc> ps -ef | grep nrpe
> >     root 2478206 2019568   0 15:47:24  pts/1  0:00 grep nrpe
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing here? Also, does anyone 
> > know of any Nagios documentation for AIX? I have not had a lot of 
> > luck
>
> > with http://www.nagioscommunity.org/wiki.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > David Berg
> >
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