check_nrpe - Could not complete SSL handshake.

[Stalin]

Nevermind. That was brutal. I got it working.

Previously I'd set server_address to bind to localhost (only one
interface), After i changed to ip address, restarted nrpe deamon, all
started to work fine. dang!

Thanks everyone for your inputs.

On 10/13/05, Stalin <stalinsk at gmail.com> wrote:
> To answer to who have replied so far...
>
> 5666 port is open for sure. here is the output
>
> [nagios at host libexec]$ telnet remotehostname.com 5666
> Trying xx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
> Connected to remotehostname.com (xx.xxx.xxx.xxx).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> I'm running nrpe as a standalone deamon. so i assume there isn't any
> need to add entries in hosts.allow.
>
> Yes, i restarted nrpe after making changes to nrpe.cfg.
>
> Also i'd like give some additional information to this problem. the ip
> that shows in /var/log/messages file i.e. "Host xx.xxx.xxx.xxx is not
> allowed to talk to us!" is NOT the ip address from where the request
> origniated from. As the monitoring machine is behind the firewall, the
> requesting nagios server ip gets natted at fw and sends an internal
> address to nrpe deamon. In fact, i added the internal ip to nrpe.cfg
> still no luck.
>
> Regards,
> Stalin
>
>
> On 10/13/05, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
> > Stalin wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm completely lost on this. I get this error when i try to run
> > > commands on remote host via check_nrpe. I've checked FAQ on this
> > > error, didn't help much.
> > >
> > > [nagios at host]$ telnet hostname.com 5666
> > > Trying xx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
> > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > >
> > > remote server:tail -f /var/log/message
> > > Oct 12 15:07:25 remotehost nrpe[7542]: Host xx.xxx.xxx.xxx is not
> > > allowed to talk to us!
> > >
> >
> > This is weird. Since the connection was refused, indicating that NRPE
> > isn't listening on the port, you really shouldn't have gotten anything
> > at all in the logs. Since you did anyway ....
> >
> > > I've included the ip of monitoring server on allowed_ip_list of
> > > nrpe.cfg, but still i get this error on the remote server logs file.
> > >
> >
> > ... did you restart nrpe after adding the ip to the config?
> >
> > --
> > Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> > OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> > Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231
> >
>


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