# Is it possible to monitor IBM AIX machine cleint/agent machines using NRPE checks?

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**Category:** Icinga 2\
**Tags:** aix, nrpe\
**Created:** [September 29, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-ibm-aix-machine-cleint-agent-machines-using-nrpe-checks/8340 "2021-09-29T12:14:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![amolchoorappady](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@amolchoorappady](https://community.icinga.com/u/amolchoorappady)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-ibm-aix-machine-cleint-agent-machines-using-nrpe-checks/8340/1 "2021-09-29T12:14:24Z")

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Hello,

I’m planning to build an Icinga master server (RHEL 7.9) and I need to monitor IBM AIX server clients using this master server. It seems the agent installation is not possible on AIX servers, however, I guess we can monitor those servers over SSH connections. I prefer to monitor the client AIX servers using NRPE plugins rather than using an SSH-based protocol. So I would like to know if it’s possible to monitor AIX servers using nrpe checks from the master Icinga server?

Also, how can I add these client servers to the icinga2 master server (the agent addition setup)?  
Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.  
Thanks in advance for your answers!

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**Author:** ![steaksauce](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/steaksauce/32/1831_2.png) [@steaksauce](https://community.icinga.com/u/steaksauce)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-ibm-aix-machine-cleint-agent-machines-using-nrpe-checks/8340/2 "2021-09-29T13:25:25Z")

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We had AIX mainframes at my last job, but we paid for an IBM partner to monitor/manage them.

Quick google search turned up some instructions on installing NRPE on AIX 6.1:

> **[How to install NRPE on IBM AIX](https://support.itrsgroup.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020056054-How-to-install-NRPE-on-IBM-AIX)**
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> Introduction
> Instructions to install NRPE agent & NRPE Plugins on IBM AIX.This has been tested on AIX version 6.1 with 64-bit PowerPC architecture with successful result.
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> Installation
> Downloa...

I assume that you’re on AIX 7.x, which likely has packages around somewhere as well.

After installation, monitoring via NRPE will be like any other NRPE check – have your scripts/args available in the NRPE config. Of course you can create custom scripts (or find them on Icinga/Nagios exchange on github) that might monitor things you care about on AIX.

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**Author:** ![amolchoorappady](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@amolchoorappady](https://community.icinga.com/u/amolchoorappady)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-ibm-aix-machine-cleint-agent-machines-using-nrpe-checks/8340/3 "2021-09-29T13:47:28Z")

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Thank you Ben @steaksauce for sharing your experience.  
NRPE service is already configured on our client AIX servers. We haven’t connected the client AIX servers to the Icinga2 master as icing agent install is not possible on AIX servers. How can we add these AIX servers as clients/agents (the Master-agent setup)? Do you have any idea about this? While searching in Google, I see that we can generate client security tokens using some JSON queries from agent machine, but not sure about that.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![steaksauce](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/steaksauce/32/1831_2.png) [@steaksauce](https://community.icinga.com/u/steaksauce)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-ibm-aix-machine-cleint-agent-machines-using-nrpe-checks/8340/4 "2021-09-29T14:02:59Z")

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> [@amolchoorappady](#):
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> s to the Icinga2 master as icing agent install is not possible on AIX servers. How can we add these AIX servers as clients/agents (the Maste

Sorry! Misread the original question.

This article should get you started: you will want to define the host, and a service that uses the `nrpe` check command with the `nrpe_command` as an argument. Your `nrpe_command`s are defined in the `nrpe.cfg` on the AIX machine itself