Problems with NRPE

[Johan Corsini]

Is there any firewall between the Nagios host and the remote one?
Did you try, from your Nagios host, something like "telnet remote_host 5666"?  
If you did, could you please tell us what was the result?

Johan


Le Lundi 06 Février 2006 14:13, Kannberg, Andy a écrit :
> Johan,
>
> Yes, the port has been added to the services file, and netstat show me that
> nrpe is listening on port 5666
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Johan Corsini [mailto:johan.corsini at guest.minfin.fed.be]
> > Sent: maandag 6 februari 2006 14:07
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Problems with NRPE
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Did you add the nrpe port to the list in the /etc/services
> > file? There should
> > be a line with something like that :
> > nrpe            5666/tcp
> >
> > Also, did you check with a "netstat -a | grep nrpe" if the
> > port is listening?
> >
> >
> > Johan
> >
> > Le Lundi 06 Février 2006 13:53, Kannberg, Andy a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've got some problems with connecting to NRPE on a remote host.
> > >
> > > I've got Nagios running, along with the 1.4.2 plugin set
> >
> > and NRPE on the
> >
> > > host (Slackware Linux)
> > > On the remote client, a  Tru64 box, the nrpe daemon runs
> >
> > under inet. Also,
> >
> > > the plugins are compiled and installef.
> > > But for some reason, NRPE on the host can't reach the nrpe
> >
> > daemon on the
> >
> > > client. The message is:
> > >
> > > Connection refused or timed out
> > >
> > > I've checked and checked again, but can't find any error.
> >
> > Anyone a good
> >
> > > suggestion or hint ?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Andy
> >
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