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Testing produced a range of results on standalone servers (Global Zone) (1) SPARC SSL problems Library SUMW_1.22.7 if missing does not work even with OpenSSL installed, (2) SPARC Had troubles on a server with SUNW_1.22.7 installed and OpenSSL installed, had to compile NRPE without SSL, some success. (3) SPARC On same server but installed into virtualised Solaris 10 zone, NRPE does not work, CHECKs missing so copied from "Global Zone", have had no success here. (4) Solaris 10 on a standalone INTEL server 50% of it works, some of the CHECKs report the SUMW_1.22.7 library issue. Has anyone here gone through the Solaris 10 SPARC & INTEL installation and got it all to work on the problems above?

Sorry, could you be a bit more specific on what your issues are? I see some issues with various ssl libraries and compilation for different versions of solaris.

Problem 1: Solaris 10 Global Zone (=Stanadlone) did so much work initially on each issue to try and get NRPE to work.

Installed the pkg onto a Solaris 10 server – no problem.
Nrpe is asking for SUNW_1.22.7
The nrpe client is in maintenance mode (see notes taken from console). scvs -a | grep nrpe, svcadm enable nrpe - fails.
There is no work around at present until a package is produce that runs with SUMW_1.22.6 libc.so.1
This is a production machine running Oracle and we are not keen to start adding/changing the crypto libraries to fool NRPE to work.
It was said that you had a guy in the NRPE dev team that would look into this one

Problem 2: Solaris 10 Global Zone with a later release which has the SUMW_1.22.7 libc.so.1 - also has the OpenSSL extra libraries
Installed the pkg onto a Solaris 10 server – no problem.
Did not work - nrpe still complains about "SSL handshake"
re-compiled nrpe with the following "./configure --without-ssl --enable-command-args"
Was able to get most of it working, still many problems with check that are not configurable, i.e. check_procs - cant select it from the checks list
Oddly the the default check runs a script called "custom_check_procs" - have verified this also, but the Nagios host interprets the dat incorrectly

Problem 3: Solaris 10 Zone (=virtualised) on the same host as in "Problem 2", IDENTICLE in terms of OS
The NRPE package installs, but much of it missing in ../nagios/libexec - this was verified by Nagios
Does not work at all - SSL handshake issues
Copied the executable from the Global zone to the virtual - did not work. NRPE reports that it is running
Tried re-compiling the NRPE code, there seem to be many issues that prevented compilation, i.e. syntax errors
As a test I then copied from the Global zone to the virtual the libexec directory - this didnt work even though NRPE is running
So in all the Solaris 10 zones NRPE does not work

Problem 4: Solaris 10 Intel (Global Zone= standalone)

12 checks - 8 of them work?

3 of the four that dont work are usfull ones, Load, Disk usage and users "NRPE: Unable to read output"

We are doing some testing internally, and having our lead nrdp developer and solaris specialist take a look into this. Hopefully he should reply shortly.