/var/log/messages full of nrpe exit/starts

[WillemDH]

Hello,

Just noticed we have several Linux CentOS servers where the /var/log/messages is fulle of entries from nrpe like these:

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Jan 14 15:55:50 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=23973 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 15:55:55 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=23973 duration=5(sec)
Jan 14 15:56:30 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=26021 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 15:56:30 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=26021 duration=0(sec)
Jan 14 15:56:53 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=27036 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 15:56:53 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=27036 duration=0(sec)
Jan 14 15:57:50 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=30104 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 15:57:50 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=30104 duration=0(sec)
Jan 14 15:58:07 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=31048 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 15:58:07 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=31048 duration=0(sec)
Jan 14 15:59:19 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=1864 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 15:59:19 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=1864 duration=0(sec)
Jan 14 15:59:52 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=3593 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 15:59:52 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=3593 duration=0(sec)
Jan 14 15:59:53 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=3780 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 15:59:53 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=3780 duration=0(sec)
Jan 14 16:00:34 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=5546 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 16:00:34 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=5546 duration=0(sec)
Jan 14 16:00:38 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=6090 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 16:00:38 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=6090 duration=0(sec)
Jan 14 16:00:50 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=6094 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 16:00:55 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=6094 duration=5(sec)
Jan 14 16:01:30 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=8167 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 16:01:30 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=8167 duration=0(sec)
Jan 14 16:01:53 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: START: nrpe pid=9188 from=::ffff:10.10.99.58
Jan 14 16:01:53 SERVERNAME xinetd[1406]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=9188 duration=0(sec)

Is this normal behaviour? I noticed this on several of our monitored Linux servers. They have about 12 services which run every 5 minutes.

Thanks for any advice around this.

Willem

[abrist]

Yes, this is wai. Those lines are logs for each nrpe check.

[WillemDH]

Ok, thanks for confirming this.

[tmcdonald]

Locking this up now. Let us know if you have any other issues.