Installing Nagios Remote Plugin Executor in Solaris 11

Install gcc

pkg install pkg://sfe/runtime/gcc pkg://sfe/sfe/developer/gcc

Install system headers (not really sure if all listed were necessary):

pkg install SUNWhea SUNWbinutils SUNWarc SUNWgcc SUNWgccruntime SUNWlibsigsegv SUNWgm4 SUNWgnu-automake-110 SUNWaconf

Update your PATH:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/gcc/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin
export PATH

Manually create nagios user account, home directory, group, and assigned him a password.

mkdir -p /usr/local/nagios
useradd -d /usr/local/nagios -m nagios
groupadd nagios
usermod -G nagios nagios
passwd nagios

Download, extract, compile and install nrpe.

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nrpe-2.13.tar.gz
tar -xvf http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nrpe-2.13.tar.gz
cd /opt/nrpe-2.13
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
make install
make install-daemon-config
cp src/check_nrpe /usr/local/nagios/libexec

Update permissions.

chown -R nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/

Add the following entry to /etc/services

nrpe 5666/tcp # NRPE

Add the following entry to /etc/inetd.conf

nrpe stream tcp nowait nagios /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -i

Convert and add the new legacy inetd entry to SMF.

inetconv
inetconv -e

Tags: [ nagios solaris ]

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