NRPE Problems

[Gregory Wong]

# ALLOWED HOST ADDRESSES
# This is a comma-delimited list of IP address of hosts that are allowed
# to talk to the NRPE daemon.
#
# NOTE: The daemon only does rudimentary checking of the client's IP
#       address.

#allowed_hosts=192.168.0.1

On 3/2/08 5:37 AM, "Robert Sailer" <robert.sailer at sysplex.org> wrote:

> Hi Gregroy,
> 
> whats your setting in the nrpe.cfg (on the machine to be monitored) for the
> key allowed_hosts?
> 
> rgds
> Robert
> 
> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:24:58 -0500, Gregory Wong wrote
>> > Hi everyone. I just configured my Nagios box to start monitoring
>> > with NRPE. When I run check_nrpe ­H 127.0.0.1 it resolves the NRPE
>> > version as expected. Since my monitoring server is colocated and I
>> > plan to monitor hosts behind firewalls I setup a test server behind
>> > my firewall at home for testing purposes.
>> >
>> > I have TCP/5666 forwarded to the internal IP address of my test
>> > server. That same port is also open on my Nagios server as well. I
>> > am running NRPE on my Windows server. The version of NRPE running
>> > can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/24o3h3
>> >
>> > When I run check_nrpe ­H <Home IP Address> I get a socket timeout
>> > error. I did a netstat on both servers and it looks like there is a
> connection.
>> >
>> >  TCP    gwong-srvr1:5666       gwong-srvr1:0          LISTENING
>> >  TCP    gwong-srvr1:netbios-ssn  gwong-srvr1:0          LISTENING
>> >  TCP    gwong-srvr1:5666       <Nagios IP>:36422    CLOSE_WAIT
>> >  TCP    gwong-srvr1:5666       <Nagios IP>:38766    CLOSE_WAIT
>> >  TCP    gwong-srvr1:5666       <Nagios IP>:38907    CLOSE_WAIT
>> >  TCP    gwong-srvr1:5666       <Nagios IP>:38909    CLOSE_WAIT
>> >
>> > root at nagios:~# netstat -at | grep nrpe
>> > tcp        0      0 *:nrpe                  *:*                     LISTEN
>> > tcp        0      0 <Nagios IP>:38913     <Home IP>:nrpe ESTABLISHED
>> > root at nagios:~# netstat -at | grep nrpe
>> > tcp        0      0 *:nrpe                  *:*                     LISTEN
>> > tcp        0      0 <Nagios IP>:38913     <Home IP>:nrpe FIN_WAIT2
>> >
>> > Any ideas why this won¹t work?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
> 
> 
> Gruss
> Robert

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