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<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good morning
group!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am still
relatively new to nagios and trying to implement nrpe with nagios 3 at my
site. I believe I have everything setup correctly on both the nagios
server and the client. When I try to use check_nrpe to run a script on the
client side I am getting the error:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>nrpe[]: Error: Request packet had invalid CRC32.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>nrpe[]: Client request was invalid, bailing out...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am running the
nagios server on solaris 9 and the client is running Redhat Linux WS 3 update 6.
The version of check_nrpe is 1.9 but the version of nrpe is 2.12. I have
the system setup to execute the nrpe daemon through xinetd on the linux
client.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009><FONT face=Arial size=2>The server_args line
in the nrpe startup file under /etc/xinetd.d has the following arguments listed
per a suggested issue on the internet asking to redirect standard error to
/dev/null:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>server_args = -n -c path_to_nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
2>&1 /dev/null</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also my only_from
config is setup to allow the client to receive requests from the nagios server
only.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>only_from =
ipaddress_of_nagios_server</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=509462810-18032009><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help or
suggestions are appreciated.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV align=left><STRONG><FONT
face="Book Antiqua"><EM>Larry</EM></FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>