NRPE Install Error

[Richard Quintin]

Hi Scott,

This can be an annoying problem with NRPE.

First make sure NRPE works ok without ssl (using the -n switch):
On the host running the NRPE daemon do:
nrpe -n -d -c <config file>

On the Nagios host do:
check_nrpe -n -H <IP> -c <command> -a <args>

After that works, you'll need to check to make sure that
- NRPE is the same version on both hosts.
- OpenSSL libraries are the same version on both hosts.

After that, I don't know... For me the problem has been different SSL
versions almost every time.  It's annoying enough that I'm considering
alternatives to NRPE.

Good luck! :)

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Scott Ackerman
<lists at scott-ackerman.com> wrote:
> Shankar,
>
> thanks for the help. The nrpe daemon is running on the remote server. There
> were no ./configure problems on the remote server, and the only "warning" I
> received when I ran ./configure on the monitoring host was "checking for
> Kerberos include files... could not find include files"
>
> When I ran telnet from the monitoring host to the server I got the
> following:
>
> trying <ip address>
> connected to <ip address>
> escape character is '^}'.
> connection closed by foreign host.
>
> So it seems as if the ports are opened between the two. Firewall access is
> allowed between the two (obviously or telnet would not have worked).
>
> But I am still stuck in the same spot witht the "CHECK NRPE: Error - Could
> not complete SSL handshake."
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> To: Scott Ackerman
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE Install Error
>
> Please make sure ./configure went properly and complied nrpe without any
> errors. Also check if the nrpe daemon running, ps -ef | grep nrpe or ps -ef
> | grep 5666
>
> from the nagios server, try
> telnet <ip-of-the-monitoring-host> 5666
>
> you can also check if the firewall access allow between the two
> servers(nagios and remote host).
>
> Hope this helps
>
> -Shankar
>
>
> On 6/20/08, Scott Ackerman <lists at scott-ackerman.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have successfully installed NRPE on the remote server (FC6 box). I have
>> run the check_nrpe "tests" to verify that everything is working correctly.
>> On the monitoring server however (CentOS 5.1 box) when I run
>> "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H (IP address of remote server), I
>> get the following error:
>>
>> CHECK_NRPE: Error - Could not complete SSL handshake.
>>
>> the only "negative" reponse that I got when I ran ./configure was
>> "checking for Kerberos include files... could not find include files. Sorry
>> but I am new at this, but I am stumped at this point. The only thing that
>> the documentation says is what to check if you get a "timeout error".
>>
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Database & Application Administration
Virginia Tech

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