NRPE: Error - Could not complete SSL handshake

[jac]

Hi.

This is my first post here, so please, excuse my possible mistakes and my not too good English level.

My post is related to the issue that the subject describes: an error with NRPE:

NRPE: Error - Could not complete SSL handshake

There is lot of information around on how to solve this issue, but it took me a lot of time to found the correct solution.

Why?

Because my problem was not one of the 3 cases that are explained in the document "Nagios XI - NRPE Troubleshooting and Common Solutions" (http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... utions.pdf)

And the vast majority of solutions found related to the 2 first solutions explained in this document (excellent document, BTW)

After reading the troubleshoot document, lots of forum posts and other pages, I found the solution to my issue here: http://support.nagios.com/knowledgebase ... wdesc=true. In this page there are 5 different troubleshoots possible for this issue. Mine was the number 4, even being a CentOS Linux instead of a Solaris, the issue was the same (changing the name/path of the file).

So I'm posting this in this section to ask for the inclusion of this troubleshoot in the official document to save time to the next guy having this issues, if you make a forum search, more than 2400 results appears with this issue, so this is a very common issue, and reading all posts to is a very hard task...

Thank you.

[Box293]

Thanks for that jac, we'll certianly look at adding this to the document as we want to make it as easy as possible.

[mtp]

After reading the troubleshoot document, lots of forum posts and other pages, I found the solution to my issue here: http://support.nagios.com/knowledgebase ... wdesc=true. In this page there are 5 different troubleshoots possible for this issue. Mine was the number 4, even being a CentOS Linux instead of a Solaris, the issue was the same (changing the name/path of the file).
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Hi Jac,

Can you tell me exactly what you did to solve this? I see this error message on hundreds of RHEL server systems even though NRPE works fine. Number 4 is "Pseudo-random device files are not readable", but I do not know how to relate that to a Linux system.

Thanks,

M.