Check_NRPE on AIX

[Ryan Edwards]

i dont know anything about using sudo on AIX.  My team  monitors
80 different AIX hosts with a mix of 5.3 and 6.1 versions.  So just a few
points to try

 - Make sure the user you have set to run nrpe is the user ur testing with.
 The nrpe cfg has a spot for a username and group.  We use user nagios with
group system (yes create a nologin AIX account for the nagios user)
 - Make sure the permissions are set  correctly from the plugins to the
nrpe.cfg
 - Test the plugin locally.  In your email you said you can run it, but
which user?  root?  test runing the command from the user that is running
nrpe.

I have a feeling its a file permission problem

Cheers!


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Daniel Ceola <DCeola at twgi.net> wrote:

> Hello all!
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> I’ve recently been attempting to setup monitoring on my AIX 5.3 servers.
> After some research, I determined that the best way to accomplish this is
> through using NRPE. I downloaded the package here:
> https://www.monitoringexchange.org/inventory/Check-Plugins/Operating-Systems/AIX/AIX-5-3-NRPE-2-12-NSCA-2-7-2-Nagios-Plugins-1-4-11
> and followed instructions here
> http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Installing_Nagios_NRPE_on_AIX  to
> install NRPE on the AIX system.  I then found an item in the nagios-users
> archive that suggested that I needed to install sudo on the AIX system and
> change the NRPE config to use sudo for the commands.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg31668.html
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> I have my nagios server’s IP in the allowed_hosts list within nrpe.cfg
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> I also have this set (per instructions in below link)
> command_prefix=/usr/bin/sudo
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> At this point – when I run one of the check (check_disk) scripts locally
> (on the AIX system) that the NRPE package installed, I am able to get a
> result
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> # check_disk -w 85 -c 95
>
> DISK CRITICAL - free space: / 307 MB (79% inode=98%); (only copied the
> first item, but there was a lot of output)
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> However, I cannot seem to get my check from my Nagios system to work
> properly.
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> nagios at UbuntuTest:/usr/local/nagios/libexec$ ./check_nrpe -H 192.168.3.15
> -n -c check_aix_disks
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> NRPE: Unable to read output
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> The corresponding command in the nrpe.cfg on the AIX system:
> command[check_aix_disks]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 10m -c 2m
> -x /proc
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> At this point, I’m unsure of what I need to do in order to get this
> working.  If anyone could provide a possible direction, I would be most
> grateful!
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> Thanks,
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> Daniel Ceola
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