NRPE on monitoring host

[Sean McAvoy]

NRPE can be run in daemon mode or via (x)inetd, but not both.
In xinetd mode you would update the service config file (/etc/xinetd./ 
nrpe) and then restart or reload the xinetd daemon for the changes to  
take effect.
Pick one method and stick to it

Verify the nrpe command works by executing the complete command as it  
appears in the nrpe.cfg file on the command line as the *same* user  
the daemon runs as. This will tell you if the command is correct or not.

On 16-Feb-08, at 10:54 AM, Henrik Schou wrote:

> Hi list
>
> I'm having some trouble getting NRPE to run.
>
> When I run the following command, it seems to be ok.
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -d
Daemon mode above
>
>
> But when I try to run /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe start, i get the following  
> errors:
>
> nrpe: unrecognized service
> /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: line 5: flags: command not found
> /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: line 6: socket_type: command not found
> /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: line 7: wait: `=': not a pid or valid job spec
> /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: line 7: wait: `no': not a pid or valid job spec
> /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: line 8: user: command not found
> /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: line 9: server: command not found
> /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: line 10: server_args: command not found
> /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: line 11: log_on_failure: command not found
> disable: Operation failed: client-error-not-found
> /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: line 13: only_from: command not found
>
> The command I'm trying to run on my Nagios server is:
> command[check_disk1]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 20 -c  
> 10 -p /dev/sda1
>
> But I get no results..
>
> When I run this on the remote host, I get the result I want.
> check_disk -w 20 -c 10 -p /dev/sda1
>
> NRPE version is 2.11 on both systems.
>
> Anybody who can help me?
>
> - Henrik
>
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Sean McAvoy
NOC Team Lead
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