Nagios on solaris 8: NRPE issue

[Christopher X. Candreva]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Shashank Kamble wrote:

> I am having issues with installing NRPE plugin to on one of "Solaris 8" on SPARC machine. I successfully installed
> Nagios Plugins. Here is the problem,
> 
> 1) I added the following entry to /etc/services:
> nrpe 5666/tcp # NRPE
> 
> 2) Then add the following line to the end of /etc/inet/inetd.conf:
> 
> nrpe stream tcp nowait nagios /usr/sfw/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -i
> 
> 3) Next, we need to convert it to SMF by running
> 
> # inetconv
> 
> With Solaris 10, we use SMF. Is there any particular documents or steps I have to follow to install NRPE on Solaris8.
> or am I missing some steps.

As far as I know Solaris 8 doesn't use SMF. At least none of our Solaris 8 
machines do, though it may be an option I don't know about.

After adding it to inetd.conf you just restart inetd, or send it SIGHUP


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