Monitoring solaris server without installing any plugin

[Aaron Carr]

Have you considered check_by_ssh?

IMO, far easier to configure, and just as effective.

Aaron

On 2/23/06, Luc I. Suryo <luc at suryo.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi i have a similar problem where no matter how i try and compile on
> > either sol8 or sol9 (sparc) using the software from sunfreeware (gcc,
> > openssl etc etc), i just cannot get NRPE ssl handshakes to work via
> > inetd... I've tried everything, and triple-checked everything countless
> > times, but always get the "Failed to complete ssl handshake" message..
> >
> > Can anyone give me any insight, or has seen this issue before? ...I
> > would use snmp instead, but i'm pretty clueless on snmp and it's not set
> > up in nagios (yet), and i have no clue what mibs or whatever i would
> > need etc... Any help/pointers there are appreciated as well on the snmp
> > stuff - i see there are countless ways to do snmp on nagios.org - what
> > works best for most out there etc?
> >
> I have mine work just fine, sparc 8, 9 & 10. But I do use an older
> version of nrpe
>
> ./check_nrpe_ssl  -h
>
> NRPE Plugin for Nagios
> Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
> Version: 2.0
> Last Modified: 09-08-2003
> License: GPL with exemptions (-l for more info)
> SSL/TLS Available: Anonymous DH Mode, OpenSSL 0.9.6 or higher required
>
>
> The thing is to generate your own cert. unless you want to use the one
> that came with teh sources..
>
> my inetd.conf (i have ssl nrpe and none ssl nrpe configured)
> if you have tcp-wrapper remember to configure hosts.allow
>
> # Nagios agent
> nrpe    stream  tcp     nowait  sys     /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/nrpe -i -c /usr/local/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
> snrpe   stream  tcp     nowait  sys     /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/nrpe_ssl -i -c /usr/local/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
>
> 5711 = none ssl
> 5712 = ssl
>
> ./check_nrpe_ssl -H localhost -p 5711 -c check_root_disk
> CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds.
>
> now to the ssl port
>
>  ./check_nrpe_ssl -H localhost -p 5712 -c check_root_disk
> DISK OK [3945564 kB (65%) free on /]
>
>
> as you can see it works...
>
> I can sent you th ebinary if you want to but it does depends on the
> correct openssl libraries!
>
>
> hope this may help a bit :)
>
> -ls
>
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