Problems Using NRPE 1.8 with HP-UX 10.20

[Jason Marshall]

> (*) I would personally start nrpe using whatever the HP-UX equivalent to
> Solaris' truss or Linux's strace, for added scrutiny

That would be 'tusc' which I don't think ships with HPUX, but is available
Out There.  It only runs well on HPUX 11.x, though there are old
(unreliable, they say) versions for the older releases if you're stuck
there...

> 
> jc
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:18 AM
> > To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Problems Using NRPE 1.8 with HP-UX 10.20
> > 
> > 
> > I am running out of ideas...
> > 
> > /etc/sevices has an entry
> > inetd was HUPed
> > The path to the binary in inetd.conf is correct
> > The binary has the execute bit set.
> > 
> > 
> > Can you try running it as daemon instead of thru inetd?
> > 
> > -sg
> > 
> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Subhendu,
> > > 
> > > I double-checked the /etc/services file and I confirmed that
> > > nrpe is listed as port 5666.
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:59 PM
> > > To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Problems Using NRPE 1.8 with HP-UX 10.20
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > is nrpe listed as port 5666 in /etc/services?
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi Subhendu,
> > > > 
> > > > I was unable to telnet to the host via port 5666.
> > > > 
> > > > The command syntax was telnet 'hostname' 5666
> > > > The error message was 
> > > > 
> > > > Could not open a connection to host on port 5666: Connect failed
> > > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:25 PM
> > > > To: ''
> > > > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Problems Using NRPE 1.8 with 
> > HP-UX 10.20
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Subhendu,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I double-checked the HP-UX system, and there was no 
> > instance of tcpd on 
> > > > > the computer. I modified the the inetd.conf file to now 
> > read as follows:
> > > > > 
> > > > > nrpe     stream  tcp	nowait  nagios /opt/nrpe/bin/nrpe -c
> > > > > /opt/nrpe/nrpe.cfg --inetd
> > > > > 
> > > > > I also ran the kill -HUP command for inetd.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Manually running the check_nrpe command from the Nagios 
> > server resulted in
> > > > > the same
> > > > > Connection Refused By Host error message.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Can you telnet to the host:port running nrpe?
> > > > 
> > > > If so - is the host running nagios on the allowed_hosts 
> > list in nrpe.cfg?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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Jason Marshall, Unix Geek, Kelman Technologies, Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada.

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