I am sure it would have helped a lot of newbies like me. How to add linux host to nagios monitoring server using. You can get visibility into the health and performance of your cisco asa environment in a single dashboard. How to configure the pf firewall on oracle solaris. In order to plan and troubleshoot nfs in the presence of network firewalls, it is vital to understand how nfs network ports operate for nfs v2, v3 and v4. Solaris 10 update 807 has been released and available for download. Add nrpe port to etcservices add nrpe service to etcservices and make sure port 5666 default is open on firewall. Add nagios user as usrlocalnagios as home directory. Winrpe is a nagios nrpe implementation for windows systems. This document describes how to install and configure nrpe from source for use with nagios corexi. Network monitoring software download nagios xi log management software nagios log. Get started download packages packages see full software list search packages content bug. To log pf events, see using packet filter logging before you begin. Opsview monitor supports the use of monitoring agents to gather data from remote devices.
In the previous article, we have discussed about the installation of nagios server on linux in the last article, click here to see how to configure and install the nagios on linux servers. I went through the whole hassle of installing the system through all these make commands and then making an rpm so i could distribute nagios to about 45 machines, only to find out i need to go through the whole process again if i want the command arguments. Trying to get nagios nrpe running on solaris 11 sparc and im having issues with getting it to use libssl. I am trying to set a firewall rule in solaris that should block a port from external access. Check out our official repositories and those maintained by our lovely community. Next, configure the firewall to allow nrpe traffic. In this article, we will show you how to add remote linux machine and its services to nagios monitoring host using nrpe agent. The main reason for doing this is to allow nagios to monitor local resources like cpu load, memory usage. Install nrpe agent and nagios plugins on oracle solaris 10 and 11 internet connection is needed to grab packages from public repositories.
Went something wrong with the firewall configuration. Tip in pf, you can put rule sets in different files, though this arrangement is not the default. I could acheive this using iptables in linux and would like to do the same in solaris as well. It appears that they have removed some of the ciphers in order to be compliant with export restrictions. Tcp 5666, also check any firewalls between the nagios server and solaris server.
This article will show you that, how to install nagios nrpe client on linux server. If you use a proxy to get to the internet run the following command first from a terminal. Sep 12, 2007 solaris 10 update 807 has been released and available for download. Installing nagios remote plugin executor in solaris 11. Download the epel repository packages for centosrhel 5 and 6. Building nrpe on solaris 10 with ssl support the lone sysadmin. Mar 14, 2008 thank you this wonderfull article and it really helped me configure nrpe on solaris 10. Im hesitant to just install an older version of libssl for fear that it will break other things that have a dependency on that library. The latest update of the solaris os helps customers alleviate common enterprise problems such as virtualization, resource management, and system performance. Be able to view vpn tunnel status and monitor firewall high availability, health, and readiness. To do so, you add an include statement to the pf configuration file for the main root rule set. Use nfsv4 oracle solaris 10 or solaris express, which.
Solaris delivers builtin investment protection and new technologies that are even better suited to data intensive environments. With the firewall off, the client end works properly but with it running, it fails. How to configure centosrhel system as nagios nrpe client so it can be monitored from nagiosserver for system healthperformance enable epel repo fedora repository and install required packages. Please do comment your queries or problem via the comment section, till then stay tuned to for more such valuable articles. Solaris 10 ships openssl as part of the os distribution, in usrsfw. This kb article addresses the following nrpe error. If you change the xinetd configuration, you must reload xinetd. Nagios is free and open source application that is used for monitoring the complete it infrastructure i.
Nagios provides complete monitoring of solaris including operating system metrics and service state. How to configure centosrhel system as nagios nrpe client so it can be monitored from nagiosserver for system healthperformance. After some googling on ip filters in solaris, i found that we have to update the nf file in etcipf with rules something like this. Simple network management protocol and nrpe nagios remote plugin executor. Introduction a purpose the nrpe addon is designed to allow you to execute nagios plugins on remote linuxunix machines. Obviously, block in all must remain and the system cant be wide open on ports. Target audience this document is intended for use by nagios administrators who wish to monitor solaris servers with nagios xi. How to configure centosrhel system as nagios nrpe client so it can be monitored. Traffiic must be enabled on each interface, so you have pass in to allow traffic in on interface a and a pass out to allow traffic out on interface b, if it is acting as a firewall, obviously this is not. For red hat enterprise linux 6based systems, complete the following steps. Ive installed the gcc compiler as well as openssl and openssh. Installing the agent log onto the solaris server you wish to monitor as root and download the solaris nrpe agent to the tmp directory by executing the following commands. If youre facing any difficulties while adding the remote host to nagios.
Installing nagios plugin and nrpe on solaris 10 srinivasa. First well start with nagiosplugins, we need to download it and compile it from source. In this article, we describes you how to install nrpe nagios client on linux. Nrpe service to etcservices and make sure port 5666 default is open on firewall. Solaris firewall rules to block a port from external access. Nrpe how to install nrpe v3 from source nagios support. Reverse dependencies 0 reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on nrpe. I cant find where download package for my s10 sparc. To run pf as your firewall, you configure the nf file to reflect your policy, then enable the firewall service. Changes to the nrpe configuration will be read by xinetd on the fly, so there is no need to restart nrpe afterwards or include it in the system startup.
Port 5666 is used by nrpe and needs to be opened on the local firewall. Solaris 11 firewall oracle the art of virtualization blog. Jun 11, 2008 solaris 10 ships openssl as part of the os distribution, in usrsfw. Today, ncpa has come a long way from the initial idea back in 2014. Try a free, fully functional 60 day trial of nagios xi now.
Installing nrpe agent on oracle solaris 10 and 11 atlantix. Heres a step by step installation of the nagios plugin nrpe for solaris 10 x86 as the remote host. The idea for ncpa to be a single monitoring agent that was secure, simple, and easy to manage was formed. However, i would like to install nrpe on solaris 8 and 9 as well.
Nov 08, 20 in our first part of this article, weve explained in detail on how to install and configure the latest nagios 4. Solaris delivers builtin investment protection and new technologies that are even better suited to data intensive environments where price. Our official icinga repositories provide the most recent packages for all leading operating systems. May 22, 2009 traffiic must be enabled on each interface, so you have pass in to allow traffic in on interface a and a pass out to allow traffic out on interface b, if it is acting as a firewall, obviously this is not.
Nrpe will be managed by xinetd, which means that the nrpe configuration file written to etcxinetd. It is a packaging of nagios nrpe addon, xinet, cygwin and a collection of windows specific nrpe plugins for monitoring cpu, disk, memory, eventlog, services and performance counters. To set up monitoring on each remote machine, execute the following as the root user. To do this i needed to compile nrpe and nagiosplugins from source, this article covers how this was done. Nov 01, 2015 install nrpe agent and nagios plugins on oracle solaris 10 and 11 internet connection is needed to grab packages from public repositories. Implementing effective solaris monitoring with nagios offers increased server, services, and application availability as well as fast detection of network outages and protocol failures. Its written in perl and supports operating systems like ibm aix, sunos solaris, bsd, linux without any modifications.
With solaris 10, we dont use either inetd or xinetd, but smf. Optionally, modify any firewalls between your nagios server and the remote host to allow port 5666. Oracle solaris ip filter replaces the sunscreen firewall as the firewall software for oracle solaris. Purpose target audience installing the agent nagios. In the cloud, this means that the need for expensive network hardware can be reduced while changes to network configurations can be made quickly and easily. How to configure nagios nrpe client for system monitoring.
Find more operating systems at the community respositories. Unfortunately, that throws a wrench in things when you want your solaris nagios server to use the nagios remote plugin executor nrpe to securely talk. This video will show you how to set up an iptables firewall rule to only allow your nagios core server to the nrpe port 5666. The linuxnrpeagent that ships with nagios xi is only supported on centos, rhel, opensuse, sles, ubuntu, and debian. As of solaris 10, processes are started via service manager. The most common types of monitoring agents used with opsview monitor are snmp simple network management protocol and nrpe nagios remote plugin executor. The linux nrpe agent that ships with nagios xi is only supported on centos, rhel, opensuse, sles, ubuntu, and debian. The following kb article contains an explanation of how nrpe works and may need to be referenced to completely understand the problem and solution that is provided here. The industry standard in it infrastructure monitoring. Visit our knowledge center for additional help in how to choose the download method thats right for you.
As final step, you may want to download additional plugins from nagios exchange site or make your own scripts, in each case you should copy the files under libexec directory. Like the sunscreen firewall, oracle solaris ip filter provides stateful packet filtering and network address translation nat. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Java nrpe server this software joins the power of nrpe with the flexibility of java. Hi have a solaris 9 box and im trying to install nagios on it.
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