Configurating NRPE Agent.

[monitoreo1]

Hi Again !!!!!

Do you know if is possible install the NRPE agent without dependences with the "xinetd" service?


Thanks for your help.

We are Using:

Nagios XI Version : 2014R2.6
x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 (Maipo)

[jdalrymple]

xinetd is not a prerequisite for nrpe, it can be run as a daemon. I have some simple instructions I wrote up:

1) Disable the xinetd version and restart xinetd:
i - open the file /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe in your favorite editor
ii - replace the line:

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       disable         = no

with:

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        disable         = yes

iii - restart xinetd:

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sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

2) Install the nrpe startup script if you don't already have it:
i - look in /etc/init.d/ for a file named nrpe
ii - if you don't have the file create a text file and copy the contents of the included attachment into it (don't just scp the file, you could end up with broken line endings)
iii - make sure that the file is set to 755 permissions and is owned by root.root

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chmod 755 /etc/init.d/nrpe
chown root.root /etc/init.d/nrpe

iv - enable nrpe at boot

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chkconfig nrpe on

3) Verify that your config is OK - Open your nrpe.cfg (usually at /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg) and verify the allowed_hosts line reads as you wish. This line is ignored when running from xinetd so it's important to verify. The settings from before can be gotten from the /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe file.

4) Start NRPE

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/etc/init.d/nrpe start

5) Ensure that NRPE is up and running.

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ps -ef | grep nrpe | grep -v grep

[sureshvarthi]

There is not attachment for nrpe init.d script

could you please attach it

[rkennedy]

The init.d script can be found below -
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... pt/details