[Nagiosplug-help] Help with understanding NRPE logs

[Steven D. Morrey]

Sounds like you have or had an NRPE instance running already.
Double check to make sure thats not the case.
If nrpe isn't already running, I'm not sure if NRPE writes out a PID or lock file or something (haven't looked in quite awhile), but if it does that may be the cause of the problem and deleting it will likely solve the problem.

Sincerely,
Steve

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From: Sharada [vittal.sharada at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:02 AM
To: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] Help with understanding NRPE logs

Hi,

New user to this list. I have a question about this syslog messages -

Jun  9 15:53:32  nrpe[16082]: There's already an NRPE server running (PID 3912).  Bailing out...
Jun  9 15:53:32  nagios3: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;localhost;syslog1;2;Jun  9 15:53:32  nrpe[16082]: There's already an NRPE server running (PID 3912).  Bailing out...
Jun  9 15:53:34  nagios3: PASSIVE SERVICE CHECK: localhost ;syslog1;2;Jun  9 15:53:32  nrpe[16082]: There's already an NRPE server running (PID 3912).  Bailing out...
Jun  9 15:53:34  nagios3: SERVICE ALERT: localhost;syslog1 ;CRITICAL;HARD;1;Jun  9 15:53:32  nrpe[16082]: There's already an NRPE server running (PID 3912).  Bailing out..

I have a main monitoring server(A) running nagios3 , and remote server(B) running NRPE server.

Even though I instance of NRPE is running on the remote(B) server, I see this message on the monitoring(A) server syslogs.
Trying to understand what this means...and how this can be stopped.


Thanks!


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