services and processes

[srikanth.kallu]

Hi,

How do i know what all the services and processses is being monitored on any of my AIX server by my nagios server

[scottwilkerson]

Did you set this up with the AIX wizard?

They should show on the detail page if you use the quick search for you AIX server name

[srikanth.kallu]

so this is what i have under server uvdev.mouser.lan

on the status information it shows "connection refused by the host" what does this mean ?

Becuase at the moment it is giving me false alerts.

[srikanth.kallu]

and also for few services status shows " NRPE: Unable to read output " can someone please halp me what does this mean ?

[slansing]

Have you made sure that the correct NRPE port is opened on the AIX server? This is typically port 5666.

As for unable to read output, this generally means that the script is not producing output, or it is not readable by Nagios. What check is giving this error?

[srikanth.kallu]

How do i open that port 5666.

Can you help me with the command to open that

[slansing]

Have you verified that it is not already open?

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netstat -an | grep 5666

[srikanth.kallu]

yes i verfied with this command.

That port is not open

[slansing]

To forward a new port:

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vi /etc/services

And from here add:

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nrpe            5666/tcp             #nrpe

From what I know, "we do not have an AIX system here to test on," that is how you would open the port that NRPE uses by default.

[lmiltchev]

In addition to slansing's post, you can see how to map a service to a port number here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... _ports.htm

I am not sure what kind of firewall you have, but in case it is IBM, you may also look at this:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg242577.html