<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hi Ed,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I don't have a problem getting it running. What I am not grasping is how to have it read the stats on the local machine and send it's data to the central monitoring server. I finally gave up trying to grasp the documentation and bought an e-book on Nagios. It was clear to me then that nrpe isn't for what I am trying to do, rather ncsa should be used in passive mode.</div><div><br></div><div>I appreciate your response.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank-you Sir,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>--Bruce</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Edwin Zoeller <<a href="mailto:Edwin.Zoeller@ama-assn.org">Edwin.Zoeller@ama-assn.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-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">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:'nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">'nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>'" <<a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Nagios-users] Confusion on nrpe<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><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 not having two security lib's installed.<br><br> Ed</font><br> <br><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><font style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><b>From</b>: Meyer, Bruce [<a href="mailto:bdmeyer@cio.sc.gov">mailto:bdmeyer@cio.sc.gov</a>] <br><b>Sent</b>: Monday, May 07, 2012 02:07 PM<br><b>To</b>: Nagios Users List <<a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>> <br><b>Subject</b>: Re: [Nagios-users] Confusion on nrpe <br></font> <br></div><div>OS is CentOs on both.</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><Meyer>, Bruce Meyer <<a href="mailto:bdmeyer@cio.sc.gov">bdmeyer@cio.sc.gov</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-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">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></div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Now I am starting to think that NRPE has nothing to do with this. Here is what I have tried:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>I have nrpe installed on both the central nagios server, and also on the servers behind the DMZ. </div><div><br></div><div>I am not using xinetd, or inetd, rather a simple daemon.</div><div><br></div><div>To test if everything is working, from the command line on a server behind the dmz I enter:</div><div><br></div><div><div>/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H (central server ip) -c check_users</div></div><div><br></div><div>And I get back the results that apply to the Central Monitoring server, not from the host..</div><div><br></div><div>If I swap the –H with localhost, I get back the correct info.</div><div><br></div><div>Is it possible to send the results from the DMZ machines to the Centralized Nagios server?</div><div><br></div><div>My goal is to send from servers behind dmz to the nagios server.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any help. </div><div><br></div><div>--Bruce D. Meyer</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></span></div></div></span></body></html>