NRPE and remote hosts - problem

[Luis Vidrio]

Werner Flamme wrote:

>Andre Loss schrieb am 11.03.2005 11:02:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I have the same problem: as root the check_nrpe-command give an answer
>>like "OK...", but as user 'nagios' the answer is "cannot map tcp to
>>protocol number"
>>
>>I think, this is not a nagios-problem, then a problem of permissions.
>>But I don't know, which permissions are wrong... Can anybody help?
>>
>>Thanx
>>
>>Andre
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Andre,
>
>I understand this text so that there may be no entry in /etc/services for
>nrpe. Otherways you would get "Failed to obtain socket" or likewise.
>
>HTH,
>Werner
>
>  
>
>>Arno Lehmann wrote:
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>>    
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>>>Hi.
>>>
>>>martin wrote:
>>>...
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>But from console: [root at gucci nagios]# 
>>>>/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H ipaddress -c check_users
>>>>USERS OK - 1 users currently logged in |users=1;5;10;0
>>>>
>>>>Pls help me, what is wrong?  some permission?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Probably. You run nagios as user nagios, I assume, and your console 
>>>check is run as root.
>>>su to nagios and try it. Then setup sudo or chenge the file permissions 
>>>and retry.
>>>
>>>Arno
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Thanks Martin
>>>>
>>>>Sorry for my English
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>Hello guys. I run nrpe under xinetd (or inetd) whichever you run. Maybe this will help out. Here is an example file for this:
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file name: /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe
# default: on
        # description: NRPE
        service nrpe
        {
                flags           = REUSE
                socket_type     = stream       
                wait            = no
                user            = nagios
                server          = /usr/sbin/nrpe *<--location of nrpe 
binary*
                server_args     = -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg 
--inetd *<--location of nrpe config file*
                log_on_failure  += USERID
                disable         = no
                only_from       = x.x.x.x *<-- IPs of monitoring nagios 
host*
        }


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