Nagios Support Forum

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:01 pm**

It's interesting to hear about Solaris monitoring projects that may be in the works. But I *need* an nrpe client working on Solaris (V9 and 10 for Sparc).

Last time I tried compiling from the nrpe source on Nagios Exchange, I got complaints about missing SSL packages. When I tried to run the compiled nrpe, it just exited silently. Tried running a "truss" on the executable gave me information, but nothing obvious to my pea brain.

I know Nagios Corp doesn't have Solaris expertise on the team, but I need to get nrpe running somehow. Our corporate databases are all Oracle on Solaris. Not an uncommon config, I'd think.

The best article I've found on the net is: http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/03/14/ ... olaris-10/ although it's x86 oriented.

Is something like this best handled as an email support request, rather than on the forum?

Thanks...Lyle

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:34 pm**

Lyle, you could try looking into any of these options for now:

Posted: **Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:55 pm**

Trying to get nrpe and the plugins installed on Solaris is going a bit slow. I can't even install the plugins from source.

On a Sparc Solaris 10 machine, when trying to install nagios-plugins-1.4.15 configure runs fine, but make dies with:

Code: Select all

/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC    --mode=link gcc -DNP_VERSION='"1.4.15"' -g -O2   -L. -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -o check_ldap check_ldap.o netutils.o utils.o ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../gl/libgnu.a  -lnsl -lsocket -lresolv -lldap -llber -lintl -lpthread -ldl
libtool: link: gcc -DNP_VERSION=\"1.4.15\" -g -O2 -o check_ldap check_ldap.o netutils.o utils.o  -L/root/nagios-plugins-1.4.15/plugins -L/usr/local/ssl/lib ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../gl/libgnu.a /usr/local/lib/libldap.so -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/openwin/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so -L/usr/openwinlib -lssl -lcrypto /usr/local/lib/liblber.so -lresolv -lgen -lnsl -lnet -lsocket /usr/local/lib/libintl.so /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -lsec -lc -lpthread -ldl -R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib
ld: fatal: library -lnet: not found
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to check_ldap
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `check_ldap'
Current working directory /root/nagios-plugins-1.4.15/plugins
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
failcom='exit 1'; \
for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \
  case $f in \
    *=* | --[!k]*);; \
    *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \
  esac; \
done; \
dot_seen=no; \
target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \
list='gl tap lib plugins plugins-scripts plugins-root po'; for subdir in $list; do \
  echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \
  if test "$subdir" = "."; then \
    dot_seen=yes; \
    local_target="$target-am"; \
  else \
    local_target="$target"; \
  fi; \
  (cd $subdir && make  $local_target) \
  || eval $failcom; \
done; \
if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \
  make  "$target-am" || exit 1; \
fi; test -z "$fail"
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
Current working directory /root/nagios-plugins-1.4.15
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'

I suspect there's some problem with the openssl distributed with Solaris, but I really have no clue.

Should I address this to [email protected]?

Thanks for any advice...Lyle

Posted: **Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:57 pm**

My point #2 about restricted ciphers is probably the issue with SSL you're running into, but yes, the community mailing lists would almost certainly be better equipped to walk you through this one.

Posted: **Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:08 pm**

Thanks for the response, Tony. I read what you're referring to a little closer this time. I'll post the plugin question to the nagiosplug-help list.

Switching topics to the nrpe daemon (2.12), I used the suggested switches on the configure command and the logging mods to nrpe.c
Since my system is the 08/07 release (Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC), it has the SUNWcry and SUNWcryr packages, so I didn't use the SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list patch.
I didn't notice any complaints during the whole configure/make/install procedure, and nrpe seemed to start ok as a SMF service.

Oddly, when I try to run check_nrpe either from the localhost that runs the daemon, or externally from my Nagios server, I get:

ld.so.1: check_nrpe: fatal: libssl.so.0.9.7: open failed: No such file or directory

Any advice or thoughts are appreciated....Lyle

Posted: **Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:49 am**

My previous postion was an almost all Solaris environment and we monitored extensively with Nagios core using a customized check_by_ssh plugin. IIRC we had CPU, Mem, Disk usage on key partitions and output from PRTDIAG fed to a perl/expect script to alarm on errors. We did not experience much of an issue with multiple connections, I belive checking each service every 10 minutes on ~200 hosts.

Posted: **Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:40 pm**

Lyle,
please update with results if you are still having issues after coordinating with nagiosplug-help.

Thanks!

Posted: **Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:57 pm**

Well I think I finally got things running, on a test client at least.

The best resources continued to be:
http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/03/14/ ... olaris-10/
though there was a lot to wade through.

My client host is Solaris 10 Sparc 8/07 (cat /etc/release to see). 8/07 comes with SUNWcry and SUNWcryr, the 256bit encryption library (see FAQ F0372), so I decided to use them.

For the plugins:
The plugins mail list ([email protected]) did come back with one response, saying it looked like the make couldn't find "libnet.so". The error I listed earlier seemed to have a problem with "lnet", but I wouldn't have guessed that was an entry point in libnet.so
I did a find for the libnet.so, decided to try the 32 bit version, so added "/usr/j2se/jre/lib/sparc" to the end of my LD_LIBRARY_PATH
After that, make stopped complaining, and a "make install" moved the plugins to libexec.
They seem to work.

For the nrpe daemon:
Following instructions on the site mentioned, I did:

Code: Select all

configure --with-ssl=/usr/sfw --with-ssl-lib=/usr/sfw/lib

Again, per the instructions, I modified nrpe.c lines 616-619 to deal with the logfile issue, after which, make and make install worked.
Installation with SMF worked fine, following the instructions.
But running check_nrpe locally died, saying "libssl.so.0.9.7 open failed"
At the end of the article (post 93), it points out that a problem with the makefile meant the correct RPATH wasn't compiled into the binary.
You can see the problem via "ldd check_nrpe"
I recompiled via:

Code: Select all

LDFLAGS=-R/usr/local/ssl/lib ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/sfw --with-ssl-lib=/usr/sfw/lib

.
make, make install, stop & start the daemon, and by golly....it worked.

I can query the daemon both locally and from the Nagios server. Hope my luck holds out.

To me, Solaris is still very much in the main stream. I hope that XI will soon come with a productized client like the one for Centos.

...Lyle

Posted: **Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:47 am**

Glad to hear it worked out. As far as future plans, I do not expect the XI server to ever run on Solaris, but we should have some kind of client coming, yes.

Posted: **Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:02 pm**

Any news on a packaged client for Solaris?

I'm back trying to get nrpe and plugins installed on Solaris 9 & 10 (sparc) and having problems again.

Thanks....Lyle

Nagios Support Forum

Monitoring Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

nrpe needed on Solaris

Re: Monitoring Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

Re: Monitoring Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

Re: Monitoring Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

Re: Monitoring Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

Re: Monitoring Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

Re: Monitoring Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

Re: Monitoring Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

Re: Monitoring Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

Re: Monitoring Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris