NRPE + raidutil ?

[Todd Barbera]

Hi Jason,

I'm doing the same thing on a Solaris server and I needed to set the suid
bit on my plugin script. The other way to do so would be to configure sudo.
I hope this helps.

Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jason Byrns
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:37 PM
To: Nagios Users
Subject: [Nagios-users] NRPE + raidutil ?

Good afternoon, all.

I'm trying to monitor RAID array status using NRPE.  But I'm running 
into minor security issues.

* Adaptec 2100S RAID controller
* CentOS 4.2
* raidutil RPM from http://i2o.shadowconnect.com

When logged directly into the system to monitor, the raidutil command 
only works if I am root.

But NRPE refuses to start if I tell it to use root as user and group. 
(Running under xinetd, in this case)

Can anyone tell me the best (most secure) way to get this working 
properly?  This web page seems to talk about it, but in Czech...

http://homel.vsb.cz/~jas02/raid/

I am using an apparently custom Nagios plugin called "check_dpt_raid" 
and again, it seems to run manually just fine as long as I am root. 
(Can't remember where I got the plugin -- maybe from someone's mention 
of it on the mailing list.  Nothing comes up when I search for the name!)

Thanks as always!

-- 
Jason Byrns
Production Manager
System Administrator
http://www.MicroLnk.com/
402-328-8600 ext. 653


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