Nagios Server not able to establish connection with VMS NRPE

Hello All,

We are trying to set up a linux box as a Nagios Server with a VMS NRPE client.

I am getting an “Connection Refused” message. Can someone help if I am missing something.

The server and the client are in the same network. There is no firewall setup.

More details

Nagios Server : xxx.xxx.xxx.45
Nagios version: 3.0
NRPE version: 2.8
telnet not enabled

telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.6 5666
Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.6…
Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.6 (xxx.xxx.xxx.6).
Escape character is ‘^]’.

VMS NRPE client : xxx.xxx.xxx.6
NRPE version: 2.0
telnet enabled

telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.45 5666
%TELNET-I-TRYING, Trying … xxx.xxx.xxx.45
%TELNET-E-CONNFAIL, Failed to connect to remote host
-SYSTEM-F-REJECT, connect to network object rejected

[root]# ./check_nrpe -H xxx.xxx.xxx.45 -p 5666
Connection refused by host

For the VMS side, It is telling ok. But I don

Hey I was able to successfully get this to work. I am VERY interested in exchanging monitoting tips/tricks for VMS hosts.