Nagios nrpe

So, I’ve deployed NRPE using the nagios cookbook. I’ve change the nagios server, how do I change the nrpe allowed host (since that is using the search mechanism to find the “monitoring” server?

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Add it to allowed hosts: https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/nagios/blob/master/attributes/client.rb#L77

  • node[‘nagios’][‘allowed_hosts’] - additional hosts that are allowed to connect to this client. Must be an array of strings (i.e.%w(test.host other.host)). These hosts are added in addition to 127.0.0.1 and IPs that are found via search.

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Subject: [chef] nagios nrpe

So, I’ve deployed NRPE using the nagios cookbook. I’ve change the nagios server, how do I change the nrpe allowed host (since that is using the search mechanism to find the “monitoring” server?

Nikhil Shah / System Administrator
nshah@theorchard.commailto:drudolph@theorchard.com

The Orchard® / www.theorchard.comhttp://www.theorchard.com/

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