Installing NRPE with LDAP nagios user

[sarfarosh]

Hello
we need to install NRPE on our server's with nagios user on LDAP server, how can we do it ?

[scottwilkerson]

What type of servers?

[sarfarosh]

Hello Scott,
Client machine to be monitored is Solaris 10, where we are not authorized to create Local user, so we have to use Ldap user.

[abrist]

This is possible, but the users/groups need to be pre-configured through ldap. The nrpe agent assumes a "nagios" user who is member of the groups "nagcmd" and "nagios". If those account/groups preexist from ldap, then you could probably comment out the user/group creation lines from the 2-usersgroups sub script of the nrpe install:

Code: Select all

#eval "$useraddbin" -n "$nagiosuser"
#eval "$groupaddbin" "$nagiosgroup"
#eval "$useraddbin" "$nagiosuser"
#eval "$groupaddbin" "$nagioscmdgroup"
#eval "$usermodbin" -a -G "$nagioscmdgroup" "$nagiosuser"
#eval "$usermodbin" -a -G "$nagiosgroup" "$nagiosuser"