[Nagiosplug-help] NRPE Plugin on 3.10

[Kyle Smith]

Glad you liked the info. I'm no expert on xinet.d but I think you can  
do something like this:

only_from = 192.168.0.0/24

which would allow all machines on your 192.168.0.x network to connect.

Try man xinet.d for more info.

kyle

On Jun 18, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Scott Gardner wrote:

> 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 plugin been replaced by something else?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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