Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple NRPE Processes

2010-01-21 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Can you elaborate Matthew, why is it critical to run NRPE in daemon mode under Solaris? I'm just curious as to any issues that may result from not doing so. Cheers, Chris -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple NRPE Processes

2010-01-21 Thread Marc Powell
On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:18 AM, Litwin, Matthew wrote: In solaris it is critical that you run nrpe on solaris in daemon mode. That's a strong statement. Why? I don't recall hearing of problems running it out of inetd and doing so seems to be fairly common. Running it like this you should be

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple NRPE Processes

2010-01-21 Thread Juki
Hi all, I have noticed that when I turn off monitoring on the client machine, all the other socket connections disappear and I'm only left with; nag...@pms # netstat -a | grep nrpe *.nrpe *.*0 0 49152 0 LISTEN As soon as I enable monitoring for the

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple NRPE Processes

2010-01-20 Thread Litwin, Matthew
In solaris it is critical that you run nrpe on solaris in daemon mode. You need to launch it with like so: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -d Running it like this you should be able to kill it without a problem as it will maintain the pid. Make sure in nrpe.cfg

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple NRPE Processes

2010-01-19 Thread Marc Powell
On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Juki wrote: nag...@pms # netstat -a | grep nrpe *.nrpe *.*0 0 49152 0 LISTEN pms.nrpe h1de4.n2 56147 5888 0 50540 0 TIME_WAIT pms.nrpe h1de4.n2 56148 5888 0 50540 0 TIME_WAIT

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple NRPE Processes

2010-01-19 Thread Juki
Hi Marc, 2010/1/19 Marc Powell m...@ena.com There's nothing to kill and these entries are appropriate... Welcome to the world of TCP and a greater understanding of how it all _really_ works. http://www.developerweb.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2941 I will have a look at this How long

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple NRPE Processes

2010-01-19 Thread Marc Powell
On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Juki wrote: How long are they sticking around? What OS are you using? I'm running Solaris 10. They are more less sticking around indefinitely. 60 seconds seems to be the default/recommended setting on Solaris but can be as high as 10 minutes if the OS thinks it

[Nagios-users] Multiple NRPE Processes

2010-01-18 Thread Juki
Hi all, I'm running Solaris 10 on the client that is being monitored. However, when I run the command netstat -a | grep nrpe, I see multiple instances of the NRPE daemon running as shown below; nag...@pms # netstat -a | grep nrpe *.nrpe *.*0 0 49152