nath_e
June 18, 2008, 8:20am
1
Hi,
I recently built two servers, exactly the same and set up nrpe the same on both. On one of them however, nrpe doesn’t start autmatically. I have to manully restart the nagios remote plugin executor.
I see this error in the event viewer:
NRPE_NT: bind() failed with error 10049
Can anyone help me shed any light on this please as I cannot understand how this works on one server but not the other. I’ve tried uninstalling nrpe_nt.exe and then copying it over from the working server and installing it again and it still hasn’t solved the issue.
Any help/info appreciated.
Cheers
Loose
June 18, 2008, 1:29pm
2
Hi!
Just an idea: I would think that the port 5666 (default port of NRPE) is already occupied.
I hope this will help you;
nath_e
June 18, 2008, 2:57pm
3
Hi, thanks for the response. I ran netstat -b and it is being used by the nagios host IP address.
If I restart the nrpre service manually it seems to work. When I reboot the server though the service fails to start and that’s where the error above is generated.
nath_e
June 20, 2008, 2:09pm
4
Can anyone help me with this? Or suggest an alternative location where someone might be able to help me please.
Thanks
nath_e
June 20, 2008, 2:37pm
5
Here is a snapshot of some recent events form the log file. The failed to bind to port error was following a reboot.
2008-06-07 14:50:31; 4600; 4;Bad return code for [The check didn’t respond within the timeout period!]: 5
Loose
June 20, 2008, 3:11pm
6
pretty weird …
Also, I had a look at my own nrpe logs on NT, and they don’t really look as yours (my logs are a bit more extensive …). So, maybe you could try to uninstall every thing that is NRPE related, and install a more recent version.
Or, if it doesn’t work, get rid of nrpe and install NsClient++ (it is an agent that combines nrpe, nsca and maybe some other things I didn’t care about at the time :))
