Hi! Try to "su" to the user nagios is running under and try the command with that user. Seems to me, u got premission problems....
Regards, D. Kaplan, Andrew H. pravi: > I configured the ip tables on both the nagios server and the nrpe client to > allow all inbound and outbound traffic. Additionally, I made sure the > /etc/services file on both systems had port 5666 open to tcp and udp traffic. > > I was able to telnet to port 5666 on the nrpe client, but I was still getting > a > connection refused for the same port on the server. > > I verified also, that the network speed, ie: half vs. full duplex, was the > same > for both systems. The speed here is 100 half duplex no autonegotiation. > > I repeatedly ran the check_nrpe command manually and did get output back every > time. Why am I able to run the command manually, but not automatically? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 4:09 AM > To: Kaplan, Andrew H. > Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error > > Hi Andrew, > > It depends on your firewall configuration on the Nagios server - but > yes, the Nagios server will an outbound rule to allow traffic to > destination port 5666 on your nrpe client, and also an inbound rule to > allow traffic from source port 5666 on your nrpe client. > > Your client will need an inbound rule allowing traffic to destination > port 5666 from the Nagios server, and an outbound rule allowing traffic > from source port 5666 to the Nagios server. > > This is good for iptables anyway, FreeBSD's ipfilter is slightly > different but the principle's the same. > > Regards, > > Andy > > Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: >> I ran the telnet <hostname> 5666 command on the nrpe client system and it did >> connect >> without a problem. I did the same on the nagios server, and it timed out. Do >> I >> need to >> have port 5666 open on the nagios server as well as on the client system? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thu 12/28/2006 5:25 PM >> To: Kaplan, Andrew H.; Nagios Users mailinglist >> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error >> >> It seems something is stopping your NRPE client from answering to the >> server. >> >> Try "telnet <nrpe_client_server> 5666" and see if it connects or times out. >> If it times out, check firewalls/SELinux etc. >> >> Andy. >> >> >> Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: >> >>> I am running Nagios 2.6 on a Fedora Core 5 system, and am trying to >>> monitor a remote host also running Fedora Core 5 with NRPE 2.5.2. I have >>> >>> configured nrpe to use SSL. The commands.cfg file on the Nagios server >>> has an entry for check_nrpe, and I have included the option -t 60 in the >>> >>> definition. 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