Hi Gregory, try to find out how the IP Adress of your Client (your nagios-server) is mapped (you can use wireshark with filter "port 5666"). Then edit yout nrpe.cfg and insert this address to allowed_hosts.
rgds Robert On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:56:07 -0500, Gregory Wong wrote > # ALLOWED HOST ADDRESSES > # This is a comma-delimited list of IP address of hosts that are allowed > # to talk to the NRPE daemon. > # > # NOTE: The daemon only does rudimentary checking of the client's IP > # address. > > #allowed_hosts=192.168.0.1 > > On 3/2/08 5:37 AM, "Robert Sailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 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
