NRPE host on Solaris 10 (now can monitor from server, but local issue on remote host)

Izz Abdullah izz_abdullah at inbox.com
Fri Jun 13 10:40:41 CEST 2008


Of course.  It is there.  That's why the Nagios server can communicate with the remote host.  The remote host just seems to have a problem to check itself ;-)

Thanks again,
Izz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: v-alloo at ti.com
> Sent: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:18:33 +0200
> To: izz_abdullah at inbox.com, nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NRPE host on Solaris 10 (now can monitor from
> server, but local issue on remote host)
> 
> Hello,
> Did you check your /etc/services for "nrpe 5666/tcp"?
> Regards,
> 
> Vincent Alloo
> TI France Design Systems Operations Manager
> Europe and Middle East IT Services
> Texas Instruments France
> 
> E-Mail: v-alloo at ti.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Izz
> Abdullah
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 5:21 AM
> To: nagios
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE host on Solaris 10 (now can monitor from
> server, but local issue on remote host)
> 
> This is interesting:
> although running the check_nrpe -H localhost on the remote host returns
> the error, I am able to monitor from the actual Nagios server.  And yes,
> LOCAL, localhost, 127.0.0.1, etc. are in the hosts.allow file.
> 
> I thought I would take the chance and see if I could monitor since I was
> receiving some data from the command line, just this one error.  And sure
> enough, can.  Now my question is WHY this is like this?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Izz
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: izz_abdullah at inbox.com
>> Sent: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:25:55 -0800
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE host on Solaris 10
>> 
>> Also, I should mention this is the latest NRPE version, but more
>> importantly, we ran ./configure without SSL as I have had too many
>> problems with it.
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> Izz
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: izz_abdullah at inbox.com
>>> Sent: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:41:25 -0800
>>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE host on Solaris 10
>>> 
>>> still the same error: Received 0 bytes  from daemon...
>>> 
>>> results from the two commands requested (everything looks ok to me):
>>> 
>>> # svcs svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default
>>> STATE          STIME           FMRI
>>> online         Jun_10          svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default
>>> 
>>> # inetadm -l svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default
>>> SCOPE      NAME=VALUE
>>>            name="nrpe"
>>>            endpoint_type="stream"
>>>            proto="tcp"
>>>            isrpc=FALSE
>>>            wait=FALSE
>>>            exec="/usr/sfw/sbin/tcpd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg
>>> -i"
>>>            arg0="/usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe"
>>>            user="nagios"
>>> default    bind_addr=""
>>> default    bind_fail_max=-1
>>> default    bind_fail_interval=-1
>>> default    max_con_rate=-1
>>> default    max_copies=-1
>>> default    con_rate_offline=-1
>>> default    failrate_cnt=40
>>> default    failrate_interval=60
>>> default    inherit_env=TRUE
>>> default    tcp_trace=FALSE
>>>            tcp_wrappers=TRUE
>>> #
>>> 
>>> The only thing I see different between this output and that on the site
>>> listed where I installed the remote host NRPE is there is no default
>>> for
>>> tcp_wrappers and no connection_backlog.  But this shouldn't be the
>>> problem, right?
>>> 
>>> Thanks again for your assistance,
>>> Izz
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: philc at foundation-it.com
>>>> Sent: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:21:58 +0100
>>>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE host on Solaris 10
>>>> 
>>>>> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>>> [mailto:nagios-users-
>>>>> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Izz Abdullah
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have followed the instructions I found at
>>>>> http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/03/14/configuring-nagios-plugins-nrpe-
>>>>> on-solaris-10/
>>>>> 
>>>>> but to no avail.  At the end of it all, when I try
>>>>> ./check_nrpe -H localhost
>>>>> 
>>>>> it gives me a 0 bytes received from daemon.  The first check in the
>>>>> list of
>>>>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 10 -c 5 -p /
>>>>> gives data...I don't know what's wrong here...I haven't configured a
>>>>> Solaris box to be monitored...any ideas / assistance?
>>>> 
>>>> >From your description, it seems like the plugins are working OK but
>>>> the
>>>> problem is with the service itself. That's not surprising, SMF on
>>>> Solaris
>>>> 10 can be tricky to get right. I'd double check the entire section in
>>>> those instructions from "With Solaris 10, we don't use either inetd
>>>> ..."
>>>> to "Modify your hosts.allow ...". In particular make sure your
>>>> inetd.conf
>>>> entry is on one line (as the instructions say but then split over
>>>> three
>>>> lines because of the narrow width of the page). If it's still not
>>>> working, post back with the relevant section of inetd.conf and the
>>>> output
>>>> of
>>>> 
>>>> svcs svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default
>>>> 
>>>> and
>>>> 
>>>> inetadm -l svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Phil Costelloe
>>>> Foundation IT, Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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