> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike McGrath > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 1:27 PM > To: jonathan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: RE: Fedora 4 + Nagios + NRPE > > NRPE is a little funky. Make sure you've added: > > nrpe 5666/tcp > > to your services file. Next on the machine running nagios > try to telnet to port 5666 on a machine running nrpe > > telnet remote.host.net 5666 > > If it connects, great. If not then the issues is on the > remote host somewhere, either with a firewall, or nrpe not > being configured correctly or just not running for some > reason. I stopped using NRPE all together about a year ago > and I do everything via SSH and keys now. > > -Mike On a side note about this, I noticed you wanted to monitor hd space and load. Both of those thing and a number of others can be monitored via SNMP. There are nagios plugins out there that monitor snmp. It would be more efficient and less network intensive to monitor via SNMP than it would be to monitor via SSH. Check out: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/ -Mike
