question about nagios on solaris 10

[Phil Costelloe]

> I am installing nagios on solaris 10. I have problem with svcadm. The
> situation is as follows.
>
> 1. If I "svcadm enable" nrpe/tcp, the nrpe is indeed "online". However
> if I try to telnet to nrpe port from localhost and monitoring server,
> I both get :
> ||Trying *****
> ||Connected to *****.
> ||Escape character is '^]'.
> ||Connection to localhost closed by foreign host.
>
> 2.If I manually start nrpe from the command line
> directly,(/usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c ...),  then I could get
> correct output on localhost, while still get same message on
> monitoring server as in the case "1"( connected and then closed)

Do you have tcpwrappers enabled? Check /var/adm/messages to see if there are any rejection messages.

Try adding the line

nrpe:           127

to /etc/hosts.allow which will permit localhost access to the nrpe service.

Phil

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