AIX NRPE questions

[kyle.odonnell at gmail.com]

Are you running from inetd AND trying to start in daemon mode?

If so, that's your problem.  It's one or the other.

--kyleo
On 6/5/07, Berg,David <David.Berg at cerner.com> wrote:
> Hi, I was hoping someone might have some advice for me regarding
> monitoring AIX nodes.
>
> I am attempting to get NRPE 2.8.1 running on AIX 5.3, so far without any
> luck.
>
> Following the NRPE.pdf documentation
> (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf), I was able to
> configure without ssl and install using the GCC compiler. I then added a
> line to the /etc/inetd.conf file as follows:
>
> nrpe    stream  tcp     nowait  nagios  /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -I
>
> Added this to /etc/services:
> nrpe                     5666/tcp               # NRPE for Nagios
>
> Netstat looks good:
> netstat -at | grep nrpe
> tcp4       0      0  *.nrpe                 *.*
> LISTEN
>
> I also added the ip address of the local node to the nrpe.cfg file and
> have confirmed that the nagios user and group own the related
> directories and files.
>
> However, when I try to start nrpe, via the command line or by refreshing
> inetd, it doesn't start and doesn't give me any errors. For example:
>
> /etc> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -i
> /etc> ps -ef | grep nrpe
>     root 2072804 2019568   0 15:47:11  pts/1  0:00 grep nrpe
> /etc> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -d
> /etc> ps -ef | grep nrpe
>     root 2478206 2019568   0 15:47:24  pts/1  0:00 grep nrpe
>
> Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing here? Also, does anyone know
> of any Nagios documentation for AIX? I have not had a lot of luck with
> http://www.nagioscommunity.org/wiki.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> David Berg
>
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