Help NRPE 1.8 won't work

[Shayne Lebrun]

Have you thrown it into debugging mode and watched the errors in the syslog?
Have you made sure that both the nrpe executable and the config file have
the appropriate permissions?

Have you done anything in the way of diagnosis?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Hagen
> Deike
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:37 PM
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Help NRPE 1.8 won't work
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I need a little help on nrpe 1.8
> I Installed nrpe on a Linux Box running Nagios and a HP/UX Server with the
> nrpe daemon.
>
> On the HP/UX Server the nrpe exec is installed in /usr/sbin. Path is set
> correct.
> The config file is in /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg
> nrpe is loaded in inetd.conf
>
>  nrpe stream tcp nowait daemon /usr/sbin/nrpe -c
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
>
> If I open a telnet to the server on port 5666 I get a message back from
> nrpe.
> There is a entry in nrpe.cfg for following command
>
>  command[check_load]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load -w 15,10,5 -c
> 30,25,20
>
> Running the plugin on the shell is OK
>
>  $ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load -w 15,10,5 -c 30,25,20
>  OK - load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.20
>
> But as soon as I try to use the check_nrpe plugin I get an error...
>
>  me at mon:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins> ./check_nrpe -H 10.x.x.x -c check_load
>  CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes.  Are we allowed to connect to the host?
>
>
> What's wrong with it???
>
> Regards,
> Hagen Deike
>
>
>
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