NRPE agent install on AIX 7.1 failure

[krobertson71]

We are trying to monitor an AIX 7.1 server. We are getting the following error when trying to us the latest version of NRPE.

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Do you want to continue? [Y/n]Y
Proceeding with installation...
This platform (aix7.1) is not currently supported.

We need to monitor about 25 of these AIX servers. Any help would be appreciated.

[npolovenko]

Hello, @krobertson71.

Looks like there is a special NRPE agent for AIX systems. Have you tried the following tutorial?

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... gIGjfD_BwE

[krobertson71]

Did you read my first post? I am using the NRPE agent on AIX. We used the exact same pdf to install.

The document states:

This document describes how to install the AIX monitoring agent on target AIX servers. Currently AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 are supported, but support for other versions of AIX may be added in the future.

I am asking is there anything we can do about monitoring for 7.1.

[jomann]

You could try to install nrpe manually, by compiling from source off Github at https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe. This is sort of what the install script is doing in the doc. The difference is that the script applies some default configuration values into the nrpe config and installs some plugins.

If you'd like to try it out, to ensure that it is using AIX-specific build options do:

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./configure --with-opsys=aix

When you are building from source.

Another option would be NCPA, although I have not had a chance to try it on AIX 7.1 either.

[krobertson71]

Tried NCPA first but kept getting code execution errors. I will open a ticket on that if this does not work out.

Assuming also that check by ssh is an option as well? I have done that before with Solaris.

[jomann]

We are currently working on testing against AIX 7.1 to see if we can fix the issues. As for the check_by_ssh you should be able to do that on AIX too as long as you can SSH to the box.