Hi Gregroy, whats your setting in the nrpe.cfg (on the machine to be monitored) for the key allowed_hosts?
rgds Robert On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:24:58 -0500, Gregory Wong wrote > Hi everyone. I just configured my Nagios box to start monitoring > with NRPE. When I run check_nrpe H 127.0.0.1 it resolves the NRPE > version as expected. Since my monitoring server is colocated and I > plan to monitor hosts behind firewalls I setup a test server behind > my firewall at home for testing purposes. > > I have TCP/5666 forwarded to the internal IP address of my test > server. That same port is also open on my Nagios server as well. I > am running NRPE on my Windows server. The version of NRPE running > can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/24o3h3 > > When I run check_nrpe H <Home IP Address> I get a socket timeout > error. I did a netstat on both servers and it looks like there is a connection. > > TCP gwong-srvr1:5666 gwong-srvr1:0 LISTENING > TCP gwong-srvr1:netbios-ssn gwong-srvr1:0 LISTENING > TCP gwong-srvr1:5666 <Nagios IP>:36422 CLOSE_WAIT > TCP gwong-srvr1:5666 <Nagios IP>:38766 CLOSE_WAIT > TCP gwong-srvr1:5666 <Nagios IP>:38907 CLOSE_WAIT > TCP gwong-srvr1:5666 <Nagios IP>:38909 CLOSE_WAIT > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# netstat -at | grep nrpe > tcp 0 0 *:nrpe *:* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 <Nagios IP>:38913 <Home IP>:nrpe ESTABLISHED > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# netstat -at | grep nrpe > tcp 0 0 *:nrpe *:* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 <Nagios IP>:38913 <Home IP>:nrpe FIN_WAIT2 > > Any ideas why this won¹t work? > > Thanks. Gruss Robert -- Debian Project (http://www.debian.org) Ubuntu Project (http://www.ubuntu.com) Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
