Nagios Support Forum

Hi,
We are in the process of installing the nrpe agent on our Linux servers. We are following the directions in your Installing the Linux XI Agent doc and using the download it references. We had a failure yesterday and would like your assistance in figuring out what when wrong.

I've attached the installation log as requested.

thanks,
Penny Karr | IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, an Affiliate of Atrius Health
254 Second Avenue | Needham, MA 02494
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xinetd: unrecognized service

If you intend to use NRPE as perscribed via the linux-agent packaged version, you will need to install xinetd for service control on the system. You can do so with:
Then re-run the install script. Let us know if you have issues!

Thanks, I will pass the info on, its not a nagios server so I'm not doing the install.

Also, I noticed that the installation can't find autoconf and openssl-dev and on checking, they are missing. Are these required for a successful install as well?

thanks,
Penny

I'd recommend installing them too, they are pre-requisites required for the latest plugins packages and ssl usage of NRPE if you require it. They alone would not cause the NRPE installation portion to fail but autoconf for sure will cause issues when pulling plugins in from that installer.