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Turns out that my problem was in the definition of the hosts and services to monitor. That was why I couldn't find any hosts. I opened another post with some questions relating to it, it can be fallowed in: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2387 Thank you for those who helped.

Sorry, but it's just different types of fonts.

I've figured out what was wrong. in the host definition it is supposed to be hosts_name and not name. it's a copy/paste from the Internet. that was why the pre-flight check wouldn't recognize the name of the host.

thank anyway.

Hi I'm doing the preflight check after trying to add a new service to monitor with Nagios (which I can't seem to get going) and I stumbled on the fallowing error: Processing object config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/service.cfg'... Error: Could not find any host matching 'RHEL_Destruir' (con...

Hi crickel I've changed the code on check_nrpe.c but get the same result. plus, I added detail to the log of xinetd, now I can watch what happens on connections in /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure. I reboot the nagios server and it doesn't register any message on either log. I do the check_nrpe...

thank you mguthrie, I had added the IP of the Nagios on the host but not the host on Nagios. It solved the handshake question.
do you know how to add IP ranges instead of adding IPs one by on?

How do other users use Nagios and don't have this problem? How do they connect to the hosts to monitor? Do they only use the snmp and the services part of Nagios and not NRPE? I will try the patches to see if they solve my problem. As for any security issue, as I'm working in a closed network (at le...

Hello I have the following problem. I can´t seem to connect Nagios to the NRPE installed on the computers I want to monitor. They don't appear on the Nagios Web interface, when I use the command "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H nagios_server -c check_users" on the remote machines I...