Cannot write to pidfile

[sirampadu]

/etc/xinetd.d/nrpe does not exsist on the Nagios server

[sirampadu]

cat /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe
# default: off
# description: NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor)
service nrpe
{
disable = yes
socket_type = stream
port = 5666
wait = no
user = nagios
group = nagios
server = /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe
server_args = -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
only_from = 127.0.0.1,10.41.12.30
log_on_success =

[bolson]

Change disable = yes to disable = no

The two ip addresses in the only_from directive should be separated by a space rather than a comma.

Save the changes, restart xinetd, and:

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telnet localhost 5666

[sirampadu]

NRPE is not running. Please copy and paste the contents of /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe

Thank you.

I just notice the /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe does not exist on the Nagios monitoring server. The one i poster was from the client. sorry about the confusion.

Nagios server ip (10.41.12.30):
cat /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe
cat: /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: No such file or directory


Client:
cat /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe
# default: off
# description: NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor)
service nrpe
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
port = 5666
wait = no
user = nagios
group = nagios
server = /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe
server_args = -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
only_from = 127.0.0.1 10.41.12.30
log_on_success =
}

[bolson]

On the host to be monitored, run:

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service xinetd restart
telnet localhost 5666

What do you see?

[sirampadu]

On the host to be monitored, run:

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service xinetd restart
telnet localhost 5666

What do you see?

service xinetd restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart xinetd.service

telnet localhost 5666
-bash: telnet: command not found

[bolson]

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yum -y install telnet
telnet localhost 5666

[sirampadu]

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yum -y install telnet
telnet localhost 5666

telnet localhost 5666
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

[bolson]

At this point, the best course of action would be for you to go back through the installation being sure to complete all steps and let us know tomorrow if nrpe installs and runs correctly. Thank you.

[sirampadu]

At this point, the best course of action would be for you to go back through the installation being sure to complete all steps and let us know tomorrow if nrpe installs and runs correctly. Thank you.

I have about 50 remote linux (rhel7) host to configure. Which configuration is more efficient standalone nrpe or with xinetd?