NRPE agent compatibilty

[vijmane]

Hi,

We are trying to install the NRPE agent on some Linux servers, after executing the fullinstall script we get an error "SUSE Linux is not currently supported. Please use either Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, CloudLinux, SUSE Enterprise, OpenSUSE, Ubuntun or Debain.".

Below are the servers where we are facing this issue:

sv1080ap1009:/tmp/linux-nrpe-agent # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (i586)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 0
sv1080ap1009:/tmp/linux-nrpe-agent # uname -r
2.6.27.19-5-pae
sv1080ap1009:/tmp/linux-nrpe-agent #

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sv1080ap1003:/tmp/linux-nrpe-agent # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (i586)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 0
sv1080ap1003:/tmp/linux-nrpe-agent # uname -r
2.6.32.23-0.3-pae
sv1080ap1003:/tmp/linux-nrpe-agent #

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sv1080sl0001:~ # uname -r
3.0.13-0.27-default
sv1080sl0001:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 2
sv1080sl0001:~ #

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sv1080ap1040:~ # uname -r
2.6.32.29-0.3-default

sv1080ap1040:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 1
sv1080ap1040:~ #

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mindtouch:/tmp/linux-nrpe-agent# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l

mindtouch:/tmp/linux-nrpe-agent# uname -r
2.6.26-2-686
mindtouch:/tmp/linux-nrpe-agent#
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We tried to install the agent manually by referring to the link "https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.p ... 1773666937". But it seems the above OS versions are not supported. Is this a version issue? Is there any compatibilty matrix available for the NRPE agent with different OS versions/flavours.

[scottwilkerson]

The instructions here are not for the XI linux agent you downloaded, and if followed should work for all Linux variants
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=515

I an tell you have the wrong tarball because you are cd'd into linux-nrpe-agent directory which is a very specific distribution that is limited to OS it will install on.

[vijmane]

Can you guide us on which installer we must use on the given OS versions to install the agent.

[scottwilkerson]

This should be able to be used on current versions of RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, SLES, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and Debian Linux servers.
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... t-218.html

End of life server are not current.

If you run into issues with the automated installer, the fallback is to use the manual install procedure
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=515