NRPE plugin installation problem

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sa2057
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NRPE plugin installation problem

Post by sa2057 »

Hello,

I want to monitor windows updates through Nagios, to accomplish this I need NRPE plugin to be installed on Nagios core.

OS: Cent os 32-bit

Here is the result when I tried to install the plugin...

cannot find ssl libraries

Could some one help me in installing NRPE plugin and any advice is appreciated.

Thanks

SA
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jsmurphy
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Re: NRPE plugin installation problem

Post by jsmurphy »

You need to make sure that openssl and the openssl-devel packages are installed so that you can compile NRPE with SSL.

yum install openssl
yum install openssl-devel

Though I am not sure what this has to do with monitoring a windows box... if you want NRPE on a windows box then you need to install NSClient++.
sa2057
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Re: NRPE plugin installation problem

Post by sa2057 »

Thank you.

I will install the following packages. I need NRPE plugin to monitor windows updates.Is there any other way to monitor windows updates, event log without using NRPE plugin ?.


Thanks
SA
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jsmurphy
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Re: NRPE plugin installation problem

Post by jsmurphy »

If you need to monitor event log items then your best bet is to install NSCA http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... or/details on your nagios server and then install the NagEventLog client on your windows server http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... og/details

You can also use NSClient++ to do a similar job but i've found it to be less reliable: http://www.nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/Check ... ckEventLog
sa2057
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Re: NRPE plugin installation problem

Post by sa2057 »

Many thanks

SA
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