NRPE passive check port 80 or port 5666

[pcpostar]

Hi!

I'm a bit confused, but I just want to make sure

I'm configuring nagiosxi server with passive monitoring of agents behind firewall.

Documentation is really good. But there is a little detail that confuses me:
On webiterface it says that agents needs to access nagiosxi server on port 80.
Documentation says that agents are accessing nagiosxi server via 80 or 433.
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... DS_Win.pdf
In /etc/xined.d/nrpe there is a value port = 5666

(where do nrds logs errors for nrpe passive checks? In /var/log/messages?)

Thanks

[pcpostar]

I managed to set it up working, with documentations is everything ok, but I found the "problem" that was causing the thing not to work. I just want to share it with others:

When I defined the "Config Name" in NRDP Config manager i used "windows7.ps2008.lab"
If I used the dots "." in the name, the thing didn't work. If I used a name without dots, like windows7ps2008lab everything went smoothly.

Later, in NRDP_win agent installation it is OK to enter hostname with dots windows7.ps2008.lab.

I don't know if this is a design, bug or well-known-fact, but I wasn't aware that I shouldn't use dots.
Maybe NagiosXI developers can put some notice in PDF documentation or even a small notice in NagiosXI NRDP confgi manager plugin webinterface.

Please correct me if I'm wrong anyhow.

[lmiltchev]

NRPE has nothing to do with NRDS...

You made a reference to a document dealing with monitoring Windows hosts passively via NRDS...

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... DS_Win.pdf

then, you started talking about NRPE on Linux hosts...

In /etc/xined.d/nrpe there is a value port = 5666

I don't think that you are the only one confused here.

If I used the dots "." in the name, the thing didn't work.

Can you elaborate on this? What was the error that you were getting?