[Nagiosplug-help] check_nrpe build sucks

[Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de]

Hello again,

The HPUX build of plugins worked after I had installed a prebuilt
depot of GNU Make from 
the HPUX porters
http://hpux.asknet.de/hppd/hpux/Gnu/make-3.80/

Then I invoked gmake instead of the HPUX cripple make this way

MAKE=/usr/local/bin/gmake /usr/local/bin/gmake all

et voila, the binaries have been created

# ll -F plugins|grep \*\$
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         296408 Jul 12 10:51
check_by_ssh*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         323544 Jul 12 10:50
check_dhcp*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         299880 Jul 12 10:50
check_disk*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         298408 Jul 12 10:51
check_dns*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         234152 Jul 12 10:50
check_dummy*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         292872 Jul 12 10:51
check_hpjd*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         319288 Jul 12 10:50
check_http*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         112384 Jul 12 10:51
check_icmp*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         268744 Jul 12 10:50
check_load*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         261392 Jul 12 10:50
check_mrtg*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         248984 Jul 12 10:50
check_mrtgtraf*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         265432 Jul 12 10:51
check_nagios*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         291760 Jul 12 10:51
check_nt*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         302632 Jul 12 10:50
check_nwstat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         288536 Jul 12 10:50
check_overcr*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         302528 Jul 12 10:51
check_ping*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         284160 Jul 12 10:51
check_procs*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         283848 Jul 12 10:51
check_real*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         290304 Jul 12 10:51
check_smtp*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         297952 Jul 12 10:51
check_snmp*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         279000 Jul 12 10:51
check_ssh*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         270192 Jul 12 10:51
check_swap*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         293624 Jul 12 10:51
check_tcp*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         283472 Jul 12 10:51
check_time*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         278272 Jul 12 10:51
check_udp*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         291520 Jul 12 10:51
check_ups*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         263936 Jul 12 10:51
check_users*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         263792 Jul 12 10:51 negate*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys         263304 Jul 12 10:51 urlize*


OK, at least I could fix this part.
However the AIX problem still persists...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagiosplug-help-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagiosplug-help-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf
Of
> Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:20 AM
> To: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] check_nrpe build sucks
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> as I've found out I need to install an NRPE daemon on all
> hosts/nodes whose e.g. filesystem space or running procs I wish
> to monitor (I would say a very common requirement for any
> monitoring system).
> Unfortunately the Nagios documentation isn't pretty articulate
on
> this subject, merely these vague mentionings:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/addons.html#nrpe
> To add to the confusion the anchor in this page doesn't
directly
> point to the URL that I would have expected, namely
>
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Search_Projects.43.0.html?tx_netnag
> ext_pi1%5Bphrase%5D=nrpe&tx_netnagext_pi1%5Bsearch%5D=1
> So it took me a while until I stumbled over the further
required
> download links for nrpe.
> 
> Most of the systems I need to monitor are HPUX, Solaris, AIX
> (much fewer are Linux boxes).
> Need I mention that these OSes are usually only furnished with
a
> crippleware "compiler" that basically is only capable of
linking
> a new kernel (on Solaris even that isn't required thanks to
high
> degree of modularization).
> Whenever I need to build some apps from open sources for these
> boxes I can only rely on gcc.
> Especially on HPUX gcc performs very poorly.
> 
> Thus I am really glad whenever I find a prebuilt package or
depot
> for these platforms.
> 
> Well I trust that the NRPE daemon from the HPUX-PARISC NRPE
depot
> will work.
> I configured it to be run through inetd as outlined in the
> README.
> 
> What's annoying is that I also need the whole bunch of check_*
> plugin binaries on these platforms.
> But for those they don't supply any prebuilt packages or
depots.
> 
> I also found that although I somehow got the plugins compiled
and
> installed on the AIX Nagios server (i.e. manager) the
check_npre
> binary was missing.
> 
> Ok, I got the nrpe sources (I'm afraid no AIX package
available)
> and tried to compile the stuff
> 
> This was how I had the Makefiles created
> 
> # ./configure --prefix=/opt/sw/nagios --enable-ssl
> --with-ssl-lib=/usr/local/lib/openssl-0.9
> --with-ssl-include=/usr/local/include/openssl
> --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
> --with-nagios-port=5666
> 
> This is the AIX platform and its gcc version
> 
> # uname -srv
> AIX 3 4
> 
> # gcc -v
> Reading specs from
> /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0/2.95.3/specs
> gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
> 
> 
> Here is where the linker aborts
> 
> # make all
>         cd ./src/; make ; cd ..
>         gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include/openssl
> -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o nrpe nrpe.c
>  utils.c -L/usr/local/lib/openssl-0.9  -lssl -lcrypto -lnsl
> nrpe.c: In function `main':
> nrpe.c:198: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
> without a cast
> nrpe.c: In function `handle_connection':
> nrpe.c:755: warning: passing arg 2 of `SSL_read' from
> incompatible pointer type
> nrpe.c:927: warning: passing arg 2 of `SSL_write' from
> incompatible pointer type
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .get_dh512
> ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain
more
> information.
> collect2: ld returned 8 exit status
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
> 
> 
> Stop.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
> 
> 
> Stop.
> 
> 
> Ok, I understand that I don't need the NRPE daemon on this AIX
> box since this is the Nagios server.
> So I think it would suffice to only get the check_nrpe plugin
> compiled in the plugins subdir of the source tarball.
> Is that so, or would I require any other components as well on
> the Nagios server?
> 
> 
> 
> Same nuisance, different box.
> This time a HPUX node that I wish to monitor by the Nagios
> server.
> As I understood, here I will need the NRPE daemon, which I got
> from the HPUX-PARISC depot for 11.00.
> But I also need plugins such as check_procs or check_disks etc.
> 
> Here we're on
> 
> # uname -srv
> HP-UX B.11.00 U
> 
> 
> Looks like HP's make cannot cope with a rule in
plugins/Makefile
> 
> # make all
> No suffix list.
>         make  all-recursive
> No suffix list.
> Making all in intl
>         : -y -d --name-prefix=__gettext --output plural.c
> plural.y
>         rm -f plural.h
> Making all in lib
>         make  all-am
> Making all in plugins
> Make: Must be a separator on rules line 1011.  Stop.
> *** Error exit code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error exit code 1
> 
> Stop.
> 
> 
> Well the indicated line No. isn't very helpful since non of the
> Makefiles has that many lines
> 
> # find /usr/local/tmp/nagios-plugins-1.4 -type f -name Makefile
> -exec wc -l {} \;
> 337 /usr/local/tmp/nagios-plugins-1.4/intl/Makefile
> 567 /usr/local/tmp/nagios-plugins-1.4/lib/Makefile
> 398 /usr/local/tmp/nagios-plugins-1.4/m4/Makefile
> 990 /usr/local/tmp/nagios-plugins-1.4/plugins/Makefile
> 520 /usr/local/tmp/nagios-plugins-1.4/plugins-scripts/Makefile
> 426 /usr/local/tmp/nagios-plugins-1.4/po/Makefile
> 729 /usr/local/tmp/nagios-plugins-1.4/Makefile
> 
> 
> Though not being a profound connaiseur of Makefile syntax
> I cannot see anything that looks wrong in that all: rule
> 
> # sed -n 484,501p plugins/Makefile
> all: all-am
> 
> .SUFFIXES:
> .SUFFIXES: .c .o .obj
> $(srcdir)/Makefile.in:  $(srcdir)/Makefile.am
> $(am__configure_deps)
>         @for dep in $?; do \
>           case '$(am__configure_deps)' in \
>             *$$dep*) \
>               cd $(top_builddir) && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS)
> am--refresh \
>                 && exit 0; \
>               exit 1;; \
>           esac; \
>         done; \
>         echo ' cd $(top_srcdir) && $(AUTOMAKE) --gnu
> plugins/Makefile'; \
>         cd $(top_srcdir) && \
>           $(AUTOMAKE) --gnu  plugins/Makefile
> .PRECIOUS: Makefile
> Makefile: $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
> 
> I haven't tried yet on our Solaris boxes,
> but I'm convinced that the situation thereon won't differ much.
> 
> 
> With all this unforseen hassle I can so far conclude that
Nagios
> may be fine if you have to monitor mainly Linux or *BSD boxes.
> But getting things working on the commercial Unices if you
don't
> have development systems with full featured compiler suites you
> end up in the usual debugging nightmare.
> 
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
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