[Nagiosplug-help] NRPE Plugin on 3.10

[Kyle Smith]

You need to install the nagios plugins on your new Debian server,  
check_nrpe will be amoungst the plugins installed, get the installer  
from here under the "Get Plugins" section -> http://nagios.org/download/download.php 
. That page you got your installation instructions from does not show  
installing the plugins at all.

NRPE is not a Nagios plugin but rather a daemon which runs on the  
clients you are monitoring. Unless you run NRPE under either inetd or  
xinetd you will need to update the NRPE config file (/usr/local/nagios/ 
etc/nrpe.cfg) on each client to tell them about the new servers IP  
address, assuming this is IP different than the old server. Update the  
"allowed_hosts" parameter in the config file to contain the new IP.

HTH

kyle

On Jun 18, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Scott Gardner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to migrate my Nagios config from one server to another, and
> I've run into a bit of a snag. I have several Linux servers I'm
> monitoring with the NRPE plugin on my old Nagios box, which is running
> Nagios v3.06 under Ubuntu. After copying my configs to the new 3.10
> server, I get the error:
>
> (Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing)
>
> This is because the NRPE plugin is not installed, as far as I can
> tell. I installed 3.10 following the instructions on this page:
>
> http://www.thedailyadmin.com/2009/03/how-to-install-nagios-on-ubuntu-linux.html
>
> The only real difference is that I'm running Debian, not Ubuntu. I
> don't see any way to install NRPE. Am I missing something? Has this
> plugin been replaced by something else? Using the package manager
> makes me install a different version of Nagios, so I don't want to
> start over unless it's absolutely necessary.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Scott Gardner
> Network Engineering Team
> University IT Services
> (479) 575-2901
> sgardne at uark.edu
>
>
>
>
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