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<font style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I run nrpe on both Linux and Solaris clients. Have you run the startup of nrpe on the client in debug mode? This should be straight forward, the only caverat I have run into is
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<b>Subject</b>: Re: [Nagios-users] Confusion on nrpe <br>
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<div>OS is CentOs on both.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><Meyer>, Bruce Meyer <<a href="mailto:bdmeyer@cio.sc.gov">bdmeyer@cio.sc.gov</a>><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Nagios Users List <<a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Nagios-users] Confusion on nrpe<br>
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<div>I have been struggling with the documentation on nrpe.</div>
<div>It is very difficult to tell when the text is talking about configuring something on the monitoring server, and when the text is describing configuring something on the monitored device.</div>
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<div>My goal for a group of machines behind a DMZ is to query some plugins, and send the reulsts from the Monitored servers TO the centralized Nagios server that displays the status of all ncsa, nrpe etc machines.</div>
<div>I thought that the purpose of NRPE was to fill this need.</div>
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<div>Now I am starting to think that NRPE has nothing to do with this. Here is what I have tried:</div>
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<div>I have a group of servers behind a dmz that I do not want Nagios to talk directly to.</div>
<div>Rather, I want these servers to send status info to the central nagios server outbound through the DMZ firewall.</div>
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<div>I have nrpe installed on both the central nagios server, and also on the servers behind the DMZ. </div>
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<div>I am not using xinetd, or inetd, rather a simple daemon.</div>
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<div>To test if everything is working, from the command line on a server behind the dmz I enter:</div>
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<div>/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H (central server ip) -c check_users</div>
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<div>And I get back the results that apply to the Central Monitoring server, not from the host..</div>
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<div>If I swap the –H with localhost, I get back the correct info.</div>
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<div>Is it possible to send the results from the DMZ machines to the Centralized Nagios server?</div>
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<div>My goal is to send from servers behind dmz to the nagios server.</div>
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<div>Thanks for any help. </div>
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<div>--Bruce D. Meyer</div>
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