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Found two errors. File permissions on the remote host. Reset them to nagios:nagios and the remote host is functioning. Firewall issues on our side. Corrected those and the system is monitoring correctly.

Thanks very much for your help!

I made the changes you suggested but it made no difference.

allowed_hosts=96.37.142.40,192.168.2.231,127.0.0.1

/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H localhost
Connection refused by host

The only reject is the last line in the table - reject all. The ouput is below. iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere...

IPtables have been set correctly. result of
iptables -L
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:nrpe

This is probably a case of missing the obvious but i have tried everything i could think of and also what the nrpe.pdf doc suggests. :cry: I am installing nrpe on centOS box using yum. The package installs without error. Verion info: nagios-nrpe x86_64 2.12-1.el5.rf I've added the check_nrpe command...

Yes, I did. I found that I hadn't added the new config files to nagios.cfg and that fixed the problem. Thanks.

I am new to Nagios and am having difficulty getting a remote host to display in the web interface. The local host and preconfigured services display just fine. My monitoring server is running Open SUSE 11.3 with Nagios installed from the distribution media and the machine is patched current. The rem...