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necroing this topic, as we are moving from aix 6.1 to 7 in the coming month (yes old systems). And we are interested in a nrpe agent for aix.

Since these posts are from 2013, and todays were nearing 2017, one could hope that you're actually supporting aix 7 by now.
However I cannot seem to find any information about this.

please advice.

Unfortunately, installing NRPE on AIX 7 is not supported yet. It doesn't mean it is not going to work, but we don't have a way to test it in house.

That is unfortunate, could you possible supply a link to the most recent Linux nrpe agent source?

I will attempt to accomplish the same as the previous poster.

And also, in this day and age, its possible to get cloud/vm's with said versions, I myself am going to use these guys for a months sub - to try it out : http://lparbox.com/aix-cloud

Here is a link to the KB article for installing NRPE v3 from source. It could be a good reference for you for ideas on compiling the agent for your AIX server.

stefanmadsen wrote:That is unfortunate, could you possible supply a link to the most recent Linux nrpe agent source?

I will attempt to accomplish the same as the previous poster.

And also, in this day and age, its possible to get cloud/vm's with said versions, I myself am going to use these guys for a months sub - to try it out : http://lparbox.com/aix-cloud

The current release version of NRPE is at https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nr ... 0.1.tar.gz. It should compile under AIX 7. If you have any problems, let me know. While we're not officially supporting NRPE on any version of AIX, I'm doing my best to get it working there. I have shell access to an AIX 7 box, so I can compile, but I can't run it as root, so my testing is a bit limited. I just ran ./configure && make all and it compiled clean. Unfortunately, it looks like my init type detection messed up. I'll get that fixed for the next release.

jfrickson wrote:Unfortunately, it looks like my init type detection messed up. I'll get that fixed for the next release.

When you get NRPE and run configure, it would help me if you could look at the scripts in directory startup and see if any of those will work on AIX. I'm guessing either bsd-init or default-init will be the best one. If any of them are not right, please post or upload one for me.

jfrickson wrote:

stefanmadsen wrote:That is unfortunate, could you possible supply a link to the most recent Linux nrpe agent source?

I will attempt to accomplish the same as the previous poster.

And also, in this day and age, its possible to get cloud/vm's with said versions, I myself am going to use these guys for a months sub - to try it out : http://lparbox.com/aix-cloud

The current release version of NRPE is at https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nr ... 0.1.tar.gz. It should compile under AIX 7. If you have any problems, let me know. While we're not officially supporting NRPE on any version of AIX, I'm doing my best to get it working there. I have shell access to an AIX 7 box, so I can compile, but I can't run it as root, so my testing is a bit limited. I just ran ./configure && make all and it compiled clean. Unfortunately, it looks like my init type detection messed up. I'll get that fixed for the next release.

I have it running on several AIX 7.1 LPARs with no issue. If anyone has specific questions, let me know how I can help.

Thanks

@mendell, thanks for helping out!

@stefanmadsen, please let us know if @jfrickson's suggestion worked for you.

jfrickson wrote:When you get NRPE and run configure, it would help me if you could look at the scripts in directory startup and see if any of those will work on AIX. I'm guessing either bsd-init or default-init will be the best one. If any of them are not right, please post or upload one for me.

Anybody, does bsd-init work for AIX?