Source of NRPE Error Messages

[awilson]

Hi. When the testing an NRPE check like: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H {remote host ip} -t 30 -c check_init_service -a 'sshd'
NRPE: Unable to read output, is the error message coming from the remote NRPE or the local (on the Nagios host) NRPE?

Thanks!

[scottwilkerson]

Hi. When the testing an NRPE check like: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H {remote host ip} -t 30 -c check_init_service -a 'sshd'
NRPE: Unable to read output, is the error message coming from the remote NRPE or the local (on the Nagios host) NRPE?

Thanks!

Usually this output comes from the check_nrpe plugin when it was returned no output, because the plugin returned nothing, or was misconfigured in the nrpe.cfg.

That particular command is special and usually required that the command be called with sudo and that a sudoers entry me in the sudoers file on the client

[awilson]

Thank you. We'll check for that.

Alan

[scottwilkerson]

Let us know if we can be of further assistance

[awilson]

This can be closed.
Thank you.
Alan

[scottwilkerson]

Great locking