question about nagios on solaris 10

Phil Costelloe philc at foundation-it.com
Thu Mar 6 09:50:14 CET 2008


The times on the two error messages did seem a bit distant, they may relate to different ways you tried to start nrpe. Is it working yet?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Canhua [mailto:dreameration at gmail.com]
> Sent: 06 March 2008 00:13
> To: Phil Costelloe
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] question about nagios on solaris 10
>
> Actually I do have config nrpe_user and nrpe_group to nagios/nagios,
> and added that monitoring ip to allowed_hosts.
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Phil Costelloe <philc at foundation-
> it.com> wrote:
> > > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-
> users-
> >  > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Canhua
> >
> > >
> >  > Thank you so much. I get information from /var/adm/message
> >  >  It said that
> >  >
> >  > ||Mar  5 14:58:41 uis1 nrpe[26376]: [ID 306117 daemon.error]
> Error:
> >  > NRPE daemon ||cannot be run as user/group root!
> >  >  and
> >  >  ||Mar  5 15:35:14 uis1 nrpe[26475]: [ID 381997 daemon.error] Host
> >  > 10.240.0.54 is ||not allowed to talk to us!
> >  >
> >  >  however I still do not know what causes this two kind of errors.
> >
> >  Check your nrpe.cfg file and change the nrpe_user and nrpe_group
> items to something other than root. I usually set up a nagios user and
> group with the least login and permission rights I can get away with.
> Also in nrpe.cfg, add 10.240.0.54 and 127.0.0.1 to allowed_hosts.
> Restart nrpe and see what difference that makes.
> >
> >
> >
> >  Phil
> >
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