Alternate Path Install

[keith_buckley]

I have successfully installed the NRPE agent for AIX on all my AIX 5.3/6.1 Logical Partitions (LPARs). The software gets installed in /opt/nagios.

However, I want to install the agent on some of our Workload Partitions (WPARs). The /opt filesystem on the WPARs is a read-only copy of the /opt filesystem on the hosting global LPAR. So, I need to install it in a different location (say /usr/local/nagios).

Is there a way to tell the fullinstall script to install the software to an alternate install path?

Also, is there an agent yet that supports AIX 7.1?

Thanks!

Keith Buckley

P.S. I have developed an install script that installs all the required prerequisites and installs the agent without any user input if anyone is interested!

[scottwilkerson]

you would need to edit the paths in init.sh as well as in nrpe/mods/cfg/nrpe/common.cfg to the desired paths before installing..

P.S. I have developed an install script that installs all the required prerequisites and installs the agent without any user input if anyone is interested!

Feel free to share it here!

[keith_buckley]

I could have sworn that I had posted this before, but I'll try again:

I figured out how to get it to work. You don't need to install the NRPE agent on the WPAr. You just need to configure it:

1. The NRPE agent must be installed on the global LPAR
2. On the global LPAR, copy the /etc/nagios directory to the WPAR:

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cp -r /etc/nagios /wpars/wpar_name/etc/.

3. Copy over file your Nagios install file to /tmp on the destination host
4. Become root: sudo su -
5. Run cd /tmp
6. Unzip and untar the install file
7. Go into the install directory
9. As root, run ./0-prereqs and then ./1-usersgroups
10. Create an SRC entry on the WPAR for nrpe:

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mkssys -s nrpe -p /opt/nagios/bin/nrpe -a "-c /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg -d -s" -u 0 -R -d -S -n 15 -f 9

11. Start the nrpe service:

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startsrc -s nrpe

12. Verify that the nrpe service and Nagios is running:

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	# lssrc -s nrpe
	Subsystem         Group            PID          Status
	 nrpe                              15138862     active
	root@host:[/etc/nagios/nrpe]
	# ps -ef | grep nagios
	    root 11141294 18284774   0 14:50:19      ?  0:00 grep nagios
	  nagios 15138862  6488214   0 14:50:11      -  0:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg -d -s

13. Create /etc/inittab entry:

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mkitab nrpe:2:once:"startsrc -s nrpe >/dev/null 2>&1"

[slansing]

Excellent information thank you for the explanation.