Installing NRPE agent on Oracle Solaris 10 and 11

Install NRPE agent and nagios plugins

(on Oracle Solaris 10 and 11)

Internet connection is needed to grab packages from public repositories. If you use a proxy to get to the internet run the following command first from a terminal:

export http_proxy=http://<your-proxy-IP-or-name>:<proxy-port>

then

pkgadd -d http://get.opencsw.org/now

answer all and yes to the interactive questions, then run:

/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i nrpe nrpe_plugin nagios_plugins
/usr/sbin/pkgchk -L CSWnrpe # list files

NRPE agent is now installed. Run svcs command to check:

svcs -l cswnrpe

outputo should look like this:

fmri         svc:/network/cswnrpe:default
enabled      true
state        online
next_state   none
state_time   November  1, 2015 04:54:47 PM CET
logfile      /var/svc/log/network-cswnrpe:default.log
restarter    svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
contract_id  144
manifest     /var/opt/csw/svc/manifest/network/cswnrpe.xml
dependency   require_all/none svc:/system/filesystem/local (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/network/loopback (online)

Additional tweaks

Make a backup copy of the original nrpe.cfg file:

cp /etc/opt/csw/nrpe.cfg /etc/opt/csw/nrpe.cfg.orig

and replace the nrpe.cfg content with this (remember to edit the line with allowed_hosts and insert the <site-controller-IP>):

# cat /etc/opt/csw/nrpe.cfg

pid_file=/var/run/nrpe.pid
server_port=5666
nrpe_user=nagios
nrpe_group=nagios
dont_blame_nrpe=1
debug=1
command_timeout=60
allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1,<site-controller-IP>

command[check_users]=/opt/csw/libexec/nagios-plugins/check_users $ARG1$
command[check_disk]=/opt/csw/libexec/nagios-plugins/check_disk $ARG1$
command[check_procs]=/opt/csw/libexec/nagios-plugins/check_procs $ARG1$
command[check_swap]=/opt/csw/libexec/nagios-plugins/check_swap $ARG1$
command[check_load]=/opt/csw/libexec/nagios-plugins/check_load $ARG1$

Save, exit and restar the nrpe service:

svcadm restart svc:/network/cswnrpe:default

Reference

http://www.opencsw.org/packages/CSWnrpe/

Test

Tested on Oracle Solaris 10 (x86_64), 11 (x86_64)