NRPE Problems

[Robert]

Hi Gregory,

try to find out how the IP Adress of your Client (your nagios-server) is
mapped (you can use wireshark with filter "port 5666"). 
Then edit yout nrpe.cfg and insert this address to allowed_hosts.

rgds
Robert

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:56:07 -0500, Gregory Wong wrote
> # 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


Gruss 
Robert
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