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Asked: 2013-01-09 13:09:54 +0800 CST

Chef nagios cookbook doesn't install check_nrpe on server

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I'm trying to build an updated monitoring server, using the current version of the Chef nagios cookbook (3.1). It installs nagios-3.4.3 from source on my Ubuntu VM.

But I don't find any evidence of the check_nrpe command on the server, so all of my remote checks fail with "(Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing)".

I don't find anything in the recipe documentation or the source code for the cookbook that would include the check_nrpe plugin.

Anyone have a tip for me?

chef

2 Answers

  1. The source install for nagios does not install the nrpe plugin.

    I've written an update to do the source install, and I'll submit a patch to the cookbook.

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  2. Hmm, I guess the cookbook has changed since last I looked. You can't use the nagios::client_package recipe? You probably will need to change the install_method attribute, as the nagios::client includes either package or source install recipes. Here's the relevant line from nagios::client:

    include_recipe "nagios::client_#{node['nagios']['client']['install_method']}"

    where the client_package recipe just does this:

    %w{
  nagios-nrpe-server
  nagios-plugins
  nagios-plugins-basic
  nagios-plugins-standard
}.each do |pkg|
  package pkg
end

    which will install the nagios-nrpe-server Ubuntu package as well as the standard plugins.

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