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you got me on the right path.

i turned off the ubuntu ufw and it worked.
i've enabled it and opened the ports and we are still testing good.

commands for reference.

sudo ufw disable
sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw allow <port>

thanks for the quick response! this is resolved for me.

/etc/xinetd.d/nrpe was posted in the comment above. NRPE agent on the remote(target host) for the firewall command: -- firewalld package is not insalled. as mentioned i can see the packets hitting eth0 with a tcp dump. i installed firewalld and ran that command: root@testcore1:/etc/xinetd.d# firewal...

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I'm having trouble getting NRPE running. I've followed two metedos intsalling the plugins via apt-get # apt-get install openssl nagios-nrpe-server nagios-plugins nagios-plugins-basic nagios-plugins-standard --then set the allowed hosts restarted nrpe services I';ve also tried the methods layed out t...