<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Hi Ton,</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Thanks for your immediate response!!!</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>As per you I have downloaded the <FONT color=#0000ff>"nagios-plugins-1.4.0-alpha3"</FONT> and <FONT color=#0000ff>"nrpe-2.0"</FONT> from the nagios site and installed it on the <FONT color=#0000ff>IBM AIX 5.2.0.0</FONT> server. The compilation was successful.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>After the compilation I verified that <FONT color=#0000ff>nrpe</FONT> <FONT color=#0000ff>daemon</FONT> is running and the port is active on the AIX server.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>I tried to run the <FONT color=#0000ff>"check_nrpe"</FONT> from the Linux server which is our Nagios server. The following was the result.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT size=2><FONT face=Terminal color=#0000ff>[root@NagiosServer libexec]# ./check_nrpe -H AIXSERVER -c check_users<BR></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT size=2><FONT face=Terminal color=#800000>CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for error messages.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Terminal color=#800000 size=2><STRONG>-------------------------------------------------------------------</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><STRONG><FONT face=Terminal color=#800000 size=2></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>I checked the syslog in AIX SERVER.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Terminal size=2>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Terminal color=#0000ff size=2>aixserver: /var/log>grep nrpe syslog</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Terminal color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#800000><FONT face=Terminal>Dec 22 13:21:58 ukcsqply nrpe[17228]: connect from <SPAN class=312141013-22122004>nagiosserver</SPAN><BR>Dec 22 13:22:11 ukcsqply nrpe[17230]: connect from <SPAN class=312141013-22122004>nagiosserver</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Terminal size=2><SPAN class=312141013-22122004>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2><STRONG>I found that the nrpe daemon running on the AIX server is not sending the results to the check_nrpe request from Nagios server.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>The entry for <FONT color=#0000ff>nrpe</FONT> in <FONT color=#0000ff>inetd.conf</FONT> is as follows.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><FONT face=Terminal>aixserver: /etc>grep nrpe inetd.conf<BR><FONT color=#800000></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><FONT face=Terminal color=#800000>nrpe stream tcp nowait nagios /usr/local/bin/tcpd /usr/local/nagios/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/nrpe.cfg --inetd</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial color=#800000 size=2><STRONG>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Please suggest the solution for this problem. I would be glad to provide you with more details if you need.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Thanks and Regards,</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Subash Rajan.</STRONG></FONT></DIV></FONT></SPAN> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><SPAN class=312141013-22122004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080> </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV></FONT></SPAN> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><BR><FONT color=#000080></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Ton Voon [mailto:tonvoon@mac.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 20, 2004 9:49 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Subash Rajan (WT01 - MANUFACTURING)<BR><B>Cc:</B> SureshKumar Ramaswamy (WT01 - TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES (GS)); nagiosplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; SunilShriram Borkhedkar (WT01 - MANUFACTURING)<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] Installation of NRPE and Plugins on IBM AIX<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV>Subash, </DIV><BR> <DIV>We are not maintaining release 1.3.1 much any more. Please try the 1.4alpha2 release - there have been reports of successful compiles on AIX. </DIV><BR> <DIV>Ton </DIV><BR> <DIV>On 17 Dec 2004, at 04:27, subash.rajan@wipro.com wrote: </DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>Hi,</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>With related to the above subject I have few queries for which I need your suggestions.</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>We are using <FONT color=#0000ff>Nagios Verion 1.2</FONT> for Monitoring servers running <FONT color=#0000ff>Windows NT</FONT>, <FONT color=#0000ff>Windows 2003</FONT> and <FONT color=#0000ff>Linux</FONT> Operating Systems.</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>Additionally we are monitoring network devices which are Wireless Access Points and Switches.</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>We would like to include few Unix Servers running <FONT color=#0000ff>IBM AIX</FONT> for monitoring.</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>The Maintenance Level of the AIX OS is <FONT color=#0000ff>5.2.0.0.</FONT></SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>We have downloaded the <FONT color=#0000ff>nrpe-2.0</FONT> and <FONT color=#0000ff>Nagios-Plugins-1.3.1</FONT> from Nagios site and installed on the AIX system.</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>We could successfully install and compile NRPE, started the daemon and verified that nagios server is able to communicate to the <FONT color=#0000ff>port</FONT> <FONT color=#0000ff>5666 </FONT>of the AIX server.</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#ff0000><SMALL>But we have problem in installing and compiling</SMALL></FONT><SMALL> <FONT color=#0000ff>Nagios-Plugins</FONT>. I have attached the error output while compiling plugins.</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>The files attached are the outputs for the commands <FONT color=#0000ff>'./configure'</FONT> <FONT color=#0000ff>'make all'</FONT> and <FONT color=#0000ff>'make install'</FONT> from the directory<FONT color=#0000ff> </FONT></SMALL></FONT></B></DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><SMALL>/usr/local/nagios/nagios-plugins-1.3.1/plugins.</SMALL></FONT></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>Requesting you to investigate the problem and provide your feedback.</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>Awaiting yout response,</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>Thanks and Regards,</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>Subash Rajan.</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>Wipro Technologies.</SMALL></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>Bangalore</SMALL></FONT></B><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">.</FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><Plugins-configure.txt><Plugins-makeall.txt><Plugins-makeinstall.txt></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>