Comments on: Nagios NRPE on OS X Server 10.5

By: Tools for Monitoring Multiple Unix Based Systems - Admins Goodies

Tools for Monitoring Multiple Unix Based Systems - Admins Goodies — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:00:41 +0000

[...] nagios ! i’ve never used it with OSX, but quick googling shows that there are nrpe plugins for it. [...]

By: Alexander v.

Alexander v. — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:39:19 +0000

This is awesome – thank you for posting this article – I didn’t think that it would be this easy to OSX to properly listen with NRPE, though I guess looking back, it makes sense =)

Surprised to see that it was only one line…

One thing you might want to consider including – even though this isn’t mac specific – is that you need to add the “allowed hosts” bit. I thought of that as I was editing the config file… Most people would probably remember to do it – but if the first computer they tried to use NRPE with was a mac server, they’d be awful confused when they started getting SSL errors (or time outs, I can’t remember which is that one)

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:44:04 +0000

Great Tutorial.

One thing – you might want to note is that people may need to use the –with-nagios-user= and –with-nrpe-user= with their ./configure command if the nagios user they created isn’t named “nagios”. The same is true for the group.

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:49:54 +0000

Thanks!

By: Checking OS X services using Nagios

Checking OS X services using Nagios — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:30:08 +0000

[...] last two posts, Starting NRPE via launchd and Nagios NRPE on OS X Server 10.5, concerned getting NRPE to run on OS X Server 10.5 and having it startup at system [...]