Monday, October 20, 2008

configure: error: Cannot find ssl headers on CentOS 5

I have been installing and configuring Nagios for monitoring our network here at work.  While this is not the perfect solution (not due it nagios limitations, but our own internal limits) it certainitly works for us for now.  
One of the things I have been wanting to monitor on top of our publicly available services such as HTTP, SSH, and FTP is the cpu load and other metrics of our servers.  

The problem I ran into while trying to configure the nrpe plugin before I compiled it was "configure: error: Cannot find ssl headers". I had been looking into this problem for a day or so before I found the simple solution.

yum install openssl-devel

After I ran the above command and installed it's dependencies I was able to configure and then complie the nrpe plug in per the guild I was following.
Now I just need to get the nrpe plugin installed on all of my servers!
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25 comments:

  1. Anonymous12/19/2008 05:46:00 PM

    Thanks for that information! I wasn't clear on which devel package I needed to install for NRPE, this saved me a headache trying to track down dependencies!

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  2. Anonymous3/26/2009 03:11:00 PM

    Thanks as well, very nice from you posting simple solutions like this to make other lifes more easier,
    Thanks

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  3. Xtian2/28/2010 08:30:00 AM

    Thanks for the instant solution!

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  4. Entusiasta4/23/2010 09:53:00 AM

    Thank's a lot man ;)

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  5. Anonymous4/27/2010 04:07:00 PM

    Thanks a lot. It works...!

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  6. DarthBong5/17/2010 06:20:00 PM

    Thanks! This saved a lot of headaches.

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  7. Unknown5/21/2010 03:44:00 AM

    Great...!!!
    I was trying to install the nrpe plugin and always got this error. Found your solution with google... thanks man.

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  8. Anonymous6/01/2010 03:26:00 AM

    Thanks!!

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  9. Anonymous6/11/2010 03:33:00 AM

    yea, I have got exatly the same problem.
    Now i can compile it.

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  10. Anonymous6/28/2010 05:10:00 AM

    worked for me too. thanks.

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  11. Anonymous7/28/2010 12:02:00 PM

    Sweet job. Have you had success installing the daemon on other flavors besides Centos?

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  12. Anonymous10/26/2010 03:10:00 AM

    Thank you very much Steve, i was trying "./configure --without-ssl" option but it didnt work, your solution worked for me :-)

    Deepak

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  13. Anonymous11/23/2010 03:17:00 PM

    Thanks for that! Just helped me get my NRPE installed.
    josh-

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  14. rojohn11/30/2010 11:43:00 PM

    great! thanks much... keep on sharing... :)

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  15. Anonymous12/06/2010 05:31:00 AM

    Like the others... Found you with Google after struggling with the exact same problem.

    Thanx a bunch !

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  16. Anonymous8/11/2011 02:01:00 PM

    Thank you, saved my life. Arvy.

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  17. cozby10/26/2011 10:57:00 AM

    Thank you!

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  18. Sathish1/24/2012 01:10:00 PM

    Thanks for your information. Its working well. :)

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  19. Anonymous4/16/2012 06:51:00 AM

    thanks..thanks a lot.

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  20. Anonymous10/14/2013 01:53:00 AM

    Thanks
    This solution helped me too.

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  21. Anonymous10/23/2013 09:59:00 PM

    Thanks a lot. People like you make the world a better place

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  22. Anonymous6/26/2014 07:03:00 AM

    Thanks..

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  23. Unknown6/27/2014 07:50:00 AM

    Thanks so much! Workded for RHEL ( RHEL6 )

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  24. Anonymous7/14/2014 07:11:00 AM

    Thanks

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  25. Anonymous8/14/2014 06:29:00 AM

    Thanks a lot, I was searching some time for that solution!

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