Trick: compile latest Nagios NRPE agent and plugins for MacOS with SSL

Steps to build the latest Nagios NRPE agent and nagios-plugins package for MacOS with SSL support:

1. Download openssl-0.9.8zh.tar.gz
2. Unpack and compile openssl-0.9.8gz (but do not “make install”):

   tar xzf openssl-0.9.8zh.tar.gz -C /tmp
   cd /tmp/openssl-0.9.8zh
   ./config
   make

3. Download nagios-plugins-2.1.2.tar.gz.
4. Unpack and compile nagios-plugins:

   cd -
   tar xzf nagios-plugins-2.1.2.tar.gz -C /tmp/
   cd /tmp/nagios-plugins-2.1.2
   ./configure --with-openssl=/tmp/openssl-0.9.8zh --enable-perl-modules
   make
   sudo make install

5. Download nrpe 3.0.tar.gz.
6. Unpack and compile nrpe 3.0:

   cd -
   tar xzf nrpe-3.0.tar.gz -C /tmp/
   cd /tmp/nrpe-3.0
   ./configure --with-openssl=/tmp/openssl-0.9.8zh
   make
   sudo make install
   
   

 

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