[Nagiosplug-help] NRPE Plugin on 3.10

[Scott Gardner]

That was very helpful Kyle. I learned that it is in fact running under  
xinet.d on the client machines. In the xinet.d file, there is a  
directive:

only_from: =	192.168.0.5

Can this be a comma-separated list as well, or do I need some other  
directive in order to accept checks from multiple servers?

Scott Gardner
Network Engineering Team
University IT Services
(479) 575-2901
sgardne at uark.edu




On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Kyle Smith wrote:

> 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 plugin been replaced by something else?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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