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<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">Probably one of the most asked questions. I don't know why in my case things aren't working.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">[nagios@itcenter1 ~]$ ps aux |grep nrpe</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">nagios 9194 0.0 0.1 8220 1712 ? Ss 08:39 0:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -d</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">nagios 12480 0.0 0.0 3936 748 pts/0 S+ 09:58 0:00 grep nrpe</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">[nagios@itcenter1 ~]# vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1, public_ip_nagios</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">[nagios@itcenter1 ~]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H localhost</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">NRPE v2.12</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">[nagios@itcenter1 ~]$ netstat -at | grep 5666</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">tcp 0 0 *:5666 *:* LISTEN </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">TCP port 5666 is open on firewall...</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">[nagios@itcenter1 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ssl</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">openssl-devel-0.9.8e-12.el5</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">app-ssl-5.0-10</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">But on Nagios :</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">[nagios@nagios objects]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H ip_</FONT>public_server<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">CHECK_NRPE: Error - Could not complete SSL handshake.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">Other hosts work fine :</FONT><BR>
[nagios@nagios objects]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H ip_other_public_server<BR>
NRPE v2.12<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">So what am I forgetting here ?!</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">Thanks ! Jonas.</FONT>
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