Solved: nrpe[]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
Today we will see one of the most common Nagios NRPE error message and its resolution.
Lets see the error message and its resolution.
I. Error Message
[root@ngelinux001 ~]# service nrpe status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status nrpe.service
● nrpe.service - Nagios Remote Program Executor
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nrpe.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2022-09-13 10:56:47 IST; 13min ago
Docs: http://www.nagios.org/documentation
Main PID: 435305 (nrpe)
CGroup: /system.slice/nrpe.service
└─435305 /usr/sbin/nrpe -c /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg -f
Sep 13 10:58:11 ngelinux001 nrpe[436090]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
Sep 13 10:58:15 ngelinux001 nrpe[436125]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
Sep 13 10:58:17 ngelinux001 nrpe[436141]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
Sep 13 11:00:14 ngelinux001 nrpe[437381]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
Sep 13 11:03:14 ngelinux001 nrpe[439032]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
Sep 13 11:04:03 ngelinux001 nrpe[439565]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
Sep 13 11:04:11 ngelinux001 nrpe[439616]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
Sep 13 11:04:17 ngelinux001 nrpe[439672]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
Sep 13 11:04:17 ngelinux001 nrpe[439674]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
Sep 13 11:05:15 ngelinux001 nrpe[440340]: Host 172.23.99.999 is not allowed to talk to us!
II. Solution
The error means this client is not able to communicate with Nagios server.
It means there is some issue with its nrpe config file.
In my case, this file does not exists.
[root@ngelinux001 ~]# cat /etc/nrpe.d/nrpe.cfg cat: /etc/nrpe.d/nrpe.cfg: No such file or directory [root@ngelinux001 ~]# cat /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg cat: /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg: No such file or directory
I re-created from another system and then it worked fine.
The other point we need to note is the IP of nagios server should be there in allowed_hosts option.
[root@ngelinux001 ~]# cat /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg #site=NOIDA #cluster=NGELCLUS01 log_facility=daemon debug=0 pid_file=/var/run/nrpe/nrpe.pid server_port=5666 nrpe_user=nrpe nrpe_group=nrpe allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1,172.23.99.999
If the file exists, with read permissions and this option is mentioned, the error will go away.