Linux NRPE agent installation

[sbaviswa]

One of our Nagios Customer wants to monitor linux/ windows servers. For security reasons, the servers cannot be provided with an internet connection.

But the NRPE agent installation fails with many dependencies & the nagios documentation suggests using yum.

Is there any method for installing agents into servers/ desktops with no internet connection. Is there any specific repository where we can download the list of packages required for the agent install.

Regards
SBA-Viswa

[scottwilkerson]

The packages required to install the Linux agent are

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autoconf gcc glibc libmcrypt-devel make openssl-devel sudo sysstat xinetd bc

and their dependencies

[sbaviswa]

Tried the said method of downloading & installing the packages & its dependencies. But the customer is not happy with the way each package & its dependency needs to be first found, then downloaded & then installed. It take huge time.

Do you know any other agent method for monitoring linux based servers with a simple installation, like the case of check_mk where just that agent with xinetd is sufficient for monitoring the linux server.

Regards
SBA-Viswa

[scottwilkerson]

With XI another way would be to use NRDS which is included in XI.

You can find it under Admin-> NRDS Config Manager

There is a video explaining it here
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... s-tutorial