New to Nagios -- simple problem with data from nrpe

[Marc Ismael]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Brian O'Mahony <
brian.omahony at curamsoftware.com> wrote:

>  There seems to be a lot of documentation on Nagios all over the web. I
> must say im impressed with it, even though im still installing it.
>
>
>
> Basically I have the server set up and monitoring itself, and I have one
> remote machine, which I have set up 6 tests on just for testing. I have the
> nagios plugins and nrpe installed and everything is working in that regard.
> If I run the check_nrpe command with any of the base remote commands in the
> /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg file, I get the output to my screen.
>
> [nagios at mido ~]$ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H 172.16.165.248 -c
> check_root_disk
>
> DISK OK - free space: / 4460 MB (95% inode=98%);| /=208MB;4898;4908;0;4918
>
> (IP is the remote machine)
>
>
>
> However when these tests are added to server.cfg files, I get
> Status==UNKNOWN and Status Information=(No output returned from plugin)
>
>
>
> I reckon its something simple that ive missed, but ive gotten a bit lost
> looking for it.
>
>
>
> Server:
>
> Rhel5.1
>
> Nagios-3.0.6 installed from source
>
> Plugins 1.4.13-4 from rpm
>
> Plugins-nrpe 2.12-6 from rpm
>
>
>
> Remote Server:
>
> Rhel4u6
>
> nagios-nrpe-2.5.2-1
>
> nagios-plugins-nrpe-2.12-6
>
> nagios-plugins-1.4.13-1.el4
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> B
>

i would do the following

- make sure that nrpe on the nagios server is connecting to the correct port
at the nrpe server by comparing nrpe config files. (check encryption, port,
privs, etc).
- make sure that nrpe service on the clients are actually running and
listening on the configured port.
- check service and command definitions

Also I would double check the nrpe pdf documentation -- there are examples
there to get you up and running with nrpe.
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