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Red Hat Enterprise 7.6 agent install failed...
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:42 pm
by lee.krause
OS Version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6
When trying to install the NRPE agent we received the following error on a failed install.
sed: can't read /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: No such file or directory
Subcomponents installation failed - exiting
I have attached the full log.
install.log
Re: Red Hat Enterprise 7.6 agent install failed...
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:55 am
by benjaminsmith
Hello
@lee.krause,
Make sure you have the prerequisites installed on your system and try again:
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yum install -y gcc glibc glibc-common openssl openssl-devel perl wget
NRPE - How To Install NRPE v3 From Source
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=515#RHEL]
Re: Red Hat Enterprise 7.6 agent install failed...
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:29 pm
by lee.krause
All of them are installed:
gcc.x86_64 4.8.5-36.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
gcc-c++.x86_64 4.8.5-36.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
gcc-gfortran.x86_64 4.8.5-36.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
glib2.x86_64 2.56.1-2.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
glibc.x86_64 2.17-260.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
glibc-common.x86_64 2.17-260.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
glibc-devel.x86_64 2.17-260.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
glibc-headers.x86_64 2.17-260.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
openssl.x86_64 1:1.0.2k-16.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
openssl-devel.x86_64 1:1.0.2k-16.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
openssl-libs.x86_64 1:1.0.2k-16.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
perl.x86_64 4:5.16.3-293.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
wget.x86_64 1.14-18.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
Re: Red Hat Enterprise 7.6 agent install failed...
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:40 pm
by benjaminsmith
Hi
@lee.krause,
Normally, this error is due to a missing a package. Is xinetd installed and running on your system?
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rpm -qa | grep xinetd
service xinetd status
Are you installing as root?
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#Log in as root and run the following:
cd /tmp
wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/agents/linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz
tar xzf linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz
cd linux-nrpe-agent
./fullinstall
Let me know if that works for you. Thanks.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise 7.6 agent install failed...
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:01 am
by lee.krause
Looks like that worked. Maybe I was using an old agent.
Thanks!
You can close this thread.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise 7.6 agent install failed...
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:32 am
by benjaminsmith
Hello
@lee.krause,
Looks like that worked. Maybe I was using an old agent.
Thanks for the update and glad you got it working. Closing.
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