[Nagios-users] NRPE allowed_hosts directive

[Wadud Miah (ITCS)]

Hello,

I am using NRPE version 2.7 and want to configured the allowed_hosts directive so that it can take a network address in the form network_address/netmask. However, it doesn't seem to support this, so I tried putting the IP addresses of all the hosts in the network. However, when I assign this variable to all the IP addresses (which is very long), I get this error:

Feb 29 10:49:30 cn004 nrpe[22540]: No variable value specified in config file '/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg' - Line 65
Feb 29 10:49:30 cn004 nrpe[22540]: Config file '/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg' contained errors, aborting...

When I truncate a number of IP addresses, it works fine. Do you know if the newer version of NRPE resolves this issue? Namely, can it accept network addresses (network_address/netmask) and/or take a long list of IP addresses? The former will be more convenient.

Regards,

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Wadud Miah, High Performance Computing Systems Developer
Research Computing Services, University of East Anglia
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[C. Bensend]

Post by Wadud Miah (ITCS)
tried putting the IP addresses of all the hosts in the network. However,
when I assign this variable to all the IP addresses (which is very long),

Ummmm... Just how many Nagios servers do you HAVE?

That configuration option is to list the Nagios servers that will
be polling your NRPE daemon, not "all the hosts in the network".

Just wanted to make sure you're understanding the option correctly...

Benny