[Nagiosplug-help] Problem compiling Nagios plugins in Solaris 10

[Lars Stavholm]

Borja Gonzalez wrote:
> I got it to compile using that option (--withouth-mysql), and then had
> to do something similar when compiling nrpe, but this time disabling SSL.
> 
> Now I'm having problems contacting with the nrpe daemon from my nagios
> host. The error message is:
> 
> CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs
> for error messages.
> 
> And searching through the logs I found my host is not allowed to connect
> to the remote machines (Mar 26 21:52:21 orion nrpe[11492]: [ID 381997
> daemon.error] Host X.X.X.X is not allowed to talk to us!).

The error message suggests that it is the nrpe configuration
that prevents the connection, not any firewall.
/L

> I launched the daemon with the command nrpe -n -c
> .../sample-config/nrpe.cfg -d, and added into nrpe.cfg my host's IP so
> it's allowed to connect... I guess there must be a firewall I'm not
> aware of...
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> Borja
> 
> Lars Stavholm escribió:
> 
>> Borja Gonzalez wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I discovered Nagios a couple of weeks ago and found it very useful, so I
>>> tried to use it to monitorize the systems I'm responsible of in my
>>> private subnet. I chose a host to install Nagios in, and then make
>>> active checks to the rest of machines, mostly Red Hat Linux Enterprise
>>> Edition 3 and Solaris 10. I'm using *Nagios 2.8*, and *plugins 1.4.6*.
>>>
>>> When I compilled Nagios Plugins in my host, a RHEL3, I got some errors
>>> because of *mysql*... I searched through the forum, and found that it
>>> could be because of mysql-devel, which wasn't present in my machine at
>>> the time. Installed it and everything went ok. Then I went on to install
>>> NRPE and plugins into my RHEL3, and a couple of OpenSUSEs, and found
>>> that same error I had learnt how to solve... Once I installed the
>>> correct version of mysql-devel, everything went fine.
>>>
>>> My real problem appears when trying to follow that same proccess in my
>>> *Solaris 10* machines. Compilation shows mysql errors, libexec directory
>>> is never created, and everything points to the same error I was being
>>> troubled with in my Linux machines, with this exception: I don't know
>>> where to find mysql-devel for my Solaris 10 OS.
>>>   
>>
>> Try "./configure ... --without-mysql ...".
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I'm using NRPE 2.7.1 tarball, but my problem is with plugins. I also use
>>> the *tarball*... Untar it and try to compile with ./configure, make, and
>>> make install, but the first make ends with an error, and can't get it to
>>> work...
>>>   
>>
>> So, what's the error then?
>> /Lars
>>
>>  
>>
>>> If someone had the same problem and you know the way they solved it, I
>>> would be glad to know.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance!!!
>>>
>>> Borja González.
>>>
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