[Nagiosplug-help] conecting to NRPE running on a non standard port

[Edward Blum]

Hi Philip,

Thanks very much for that I tweaked the check_nrpe command to take a second
argument for the nrpe port. All working now.

Cheers

Ed

On 12 April 2010 22:21, Philip Marcus <pmarcus at factual.com> wrote:

> Hi Ed,
>
> You'll probably need to add a second NRPE command definition in your
> commands.cfg file.
> You can hardcode the port value in there.
>
> Conversely, you can customize the existing check_nrpe command definition
> and have it pull the port number from your services definition file as one
> of the variables.
>
> ex:
> commands.cfg
>
> # check nrpe
> define command{
>         command_name    check_nrpe
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_nrpe -t 55 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
> -p $ARG2$
>         }
>
>
> services.cfg
> # NRPE services
> define service{
>         use                             generic-service
>         host_name                   server1
>         service_description        Current Load
>         check_command           check_nrpe!check_load!5667
>         notifications_enabled           1
>         }
>
> Hope this makes sense. Good luck!
>
> -P
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Edward Blum <edward at blumbyte.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Searched high and low on the internet for a solution to this.
>>
>> I currently have 2 linux machines sitting behind 1 ip address, and have
>> configured both hosts to listen on port 5666. On the router I have
>> forwarded port 5666 to one and 5667 to the other.
>>
>> On the monitoring Server I check they have worked with the command
>>
>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H myhost  -p5667
>>
>> This works fine - How do I put this in to my host / service object
>> configurations? Ive looked in the manual and cant find where I can set
>> the NRPE port?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>
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