First try to telnet to port 5999 you will not get a logon but if you get a connection that port is opened. Are you running a firewall on the Debian machine (iptables, etc.....)? you might want to check that.
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wim >Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 1:21 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Can not check Debian host > > >Ross Wentworth wrote: > >> Wim wrote: >> >>> I have installed nagios 1.2 on a linux Suse 9.3. Everything works >>> fine, only I have also to check one Debian (3.1) host. >Their is nrpe >>> (Version 1.9) running as a daemon. When I check locally >(check_users >>> -w 3 -c 5) its working fine. When I check this from the >nagios server >>> (check_nrpe -H 'hostname' -p 'port' -c check_users) I have this as >>> output >>> >>> CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds >>> >>> On the Debian Serv er I become this as error >>> >>> nrpe: Could not read request from client, bailing out... >>> >> Check the "allowed_hosts" directive in nrpe.cfg on the debian box. >> Also check your firewall to make sure it's allowing stuff through >> (default port is 5666). >> >> >Thanks, but this is not the problem, host is allowed and its >behind the >firewall, so nothing in between. Any other ideas?? > > >--- >avast! Antivirus: Ausgehende Nachricht sauber. >Virus-Datenbank (VPS): 0547-2, 23.11.2005 >Getestet um: 23.11.2005 19:21:08 >avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. >http://www.avast.com > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep >through log files >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click >_______________________________________________ >Nagios-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users >::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS >when reporting any issue. >::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
