Unable to install nrpe in HP 11.11 platform

[sreesha]

Hi,
We tried installing the nrpe plugins on server HP 11.11 platform
HP version used: HP-UX virgo1 B.11.11 U 9000/800 185687557 unlimited user license.

HP model : 9000/800/rp3440

Upon running ./configure we faced an error, “Cannot find ssl libraries”.
We proceeded by creating a libssl.so file as we couldn’t find any file with this name.
The error while compiling said that in the nrpe.c file, under the function “get_log_facility”, log_authpriv and log_ftp were undeclared variables.
On deleting the entries corresponding to log_authpriv and log_ftp, the compilation was successful.
But we observed that we were facing issues. Eg: the libexec folder was empty.


Please provide any help that you can ??? Any Ideas to help ???

[jsmurphy]

NRPE will always install with the libexec folder empty, you need to compile the nagios-plugins package to get the actual monitoring binaries.

[sreesha]

Hi ,

So we have to install both nagios plug-ins and nrpe plugins on to the remote host where we want to monitor??

[slansing]

No, they need to both be installed locally on your Nagios server. As part of the installation guide it walks you through setting up the nagios plugins package. See number "6" of the basic installation guide:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... edora.html

[sreesha]

Hi ,

we have one server where we have installed nagios and another server where we tried installing nrpe daemon.....But the installation is not successful and as we read in nrpe.pdf file that was obtained from the nagios site it says that we hav to install both nagios plugins and nrpe daemon on to the remote server we want to monitor using nagios.So this is our confusion .Was the nrpe daemon installation not successful because we didnt install nagios plug-ins and nrpe daemon (both) on the remote server ? Also the answer "jsmurphy" gave led us to believe so.Please correct if what we have understood is somehow wrong.Please guide in the right direction.Thanks.

[inventsekar]

So we have to install both nagios plug-ins and nrpe plugins on to the remote host where we want to monitor??
Yes, correct. Remote hosts will need nagios plugin and nrpe plugin.

Upon running ./configure we faced an error, “Cannot find ssl libraries”.
We proceeded by creating a libssl.so file as we couldn’t find any file with this name.

You mean, you simply create an empty file named libssl.so??

[inventsekar]

jsmurphy's reply from this post: Re: Help installig nrpe and nagios plugins on HP-UX
http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... f=7&t=7042

I found an NRPE release for HP-UX here: http://www.mayoxide.com/naghpux/ and separate instructions for compiling the original source here: http://cyruspy.wordpress.com/2010/05/11 ... x-11-31-2/, there is no official release of NRPE for HP-UX.

As for the plugins package I found this: http://www.bennyvision.com/projects/nagios/index.php

[sreesha]

Thanks jsmurphy


Now-a days Nagios seems to be sending lots of false critical alerts .We dont know what happened all of a sudden.It was working fine till recently.Any suggestions?

[slansing]

What types of checks are sending the Critical alerts?