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Client install (Ubuntu version)

Install Sbire

cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/Orabig/Sbire.git

Install NRPE server

sudo apt-get install git nagios-nrpe-server

(or manual installation:)

Look for last version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/files/nrpe-2.x/

groupadd -g 9000 nagios
useradd -u 9000 -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios -c "Nagios NRPE" nagios
cd /usr/src
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nrpe-2.15.tar.gz
cd nrpe-2.15
./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/nagios --enable-ssl --enable-command-args
make all
make install
cp init-script.debian /etc/init.d/nrpe
mkdir /etc/nagios
cp sample-config/nrpe.cfg /etc/nagios/
chown -R nagios:nagios /etc/nagios/
cd ..
rm -rf nrpe*


ln -s /opt/Sbire/server_side/sbire.nrpe.cfg /etc/nagios/nrpe.d/sbire.cfg
sudo vi /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
sudo chown nagios. /etc/nagios
sudo mkdir /var/nagios
sudo chown nagios. /var/nagios

Change dont_blame_nrpe parameter to 1, and add the following line to the bottom of this file : command[sbire]=/opt/adm/Sbire/server_side/sbire.pl /etc/nagios/sbire.cfg $ARG1$ $ARG2$ $ARG3$ $ARG4$ $ARG5$ $ARG6$ $ARG7$ $ARG8$ $ARG9$ Comment out the allowed_host parameter, or (much better) put the IP address of your central server. sudo /etc/init.d/nrpe restart

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Master-side

Install NRPE client

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nagios-nrpe-plugin

Install Sbire

cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/Orabig/Sbire.git

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known issues

The client cannot connect, and the /var/log/syslog looks like this :

May 19 05:24:50 xerces nrpe[18252]: Connection from 176.31.2.1 port 61090
May 19 05:24:50 xerces nrpe[18252]: Host address is in allowed_hosts
May 19 05:24:50 xerces nrpe[18252]: Handling the connection...
May 19 05:24:50 xerces nrpe[18252]: Error: Could not complete SSL handshake. 1
May 19 05:24:50 xerces nrpe[18252]: Connection from 176.31.2.1 closed.

This is either an issue with the allowed_host parameter (check this first), or an unsolved problem with OpenSSL. In the latest case, you may add -n to the daemon launch lines in the init.d file.