[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > we use nagios to monitor our freeradius install. this is using > the adv_radius_check plugin to check from the nagios servers a > user on the freeradius server (in the users file), the following > are the succinct details ... > okay. so the user authentication tests fine with radtest on the radius > server....and it works fine > from the 2 nagios boxes...almost always. occasionally we see the following > error come through during > the 5-minute interval tests....... > > Wed Nov 7 11:21:40 2007 : Auth: Login OK: [nagios-user] (from client > 10.1.1.2 port 0) > Wed Nov 7 11:26:40 2007 : Auth: Login incorrect: [nagios-user] (from client > 10.1.1.2 port 0)
I'd suggest logging the nagios packets to a file. You can then see if anything in the nagios packets change. If so, that's a problem. If not, there's something going on with the server. > now, the check method is the same, the password is the same, the IP is the > same, in essence > nothing changes at all between each 5-minute test (the last entry 11:29:40 > is quicker > than a 5 minute interval as nagios catches up with failed events within a > following window) > and this is just plain PAP check in users file. > > so why is it occasionally failing? has anyone else seen this sort of activity? I've run 100's of 1000's of PAP requests through CVS head. I haven't seen this. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

