[Nagiosplug-help] Help with understanding NRPE logs

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 09/06/09 12:02 PM, Sharada wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like you invoke "nrpe" instead of "check_nrpe" in your check
commands... and you either have a stale pid file or a nrpe daemon
running already on the monitoring server BTW, but that doesn't matter.

- --
Thomas
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