Mark Young wrote: > On Sep 2, 2008, at 11:21 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > >> I'm not using xinetd. I'm using nrpe daemon instead. >> May be my firewall is responsible for the problem but I'm not sure >> Even after increasing the time with -t 20 the commands still report >> socket time out :-( >> > > Why not try xinetd with a simple firewall rule? I believe most people > use xinetd or inetd and thus you should be able to get the most help > that way. I set it up the same way the documentation states. > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf > Have you successfully installed NRPE before? If not, it may be > time to move to a testing environment that you can have full control > over. > > That being said... Are you running SElinux? Have you checked out your > relevant logs for nrpe, iptables, selinux, etc (/var/log/messages, > make sure debugging is turned on with NRPE)... It may be give you > some interesting information. I like to run tail on the problem > server then try NRPE from the monitoring server to see what is going on. > > > # REMOTE SERVER running NRPE daemon continuosly running tail > $ tail -f /var/log/messages > Sep 4 09:35:03 dev2 nrpe[7118]: INFO: SSL/TLS initialized. All > network traffic will be encrypted. > Sep 4 09:35:03 dev2 xinetd[32709]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=7118 > duration=2(sec) > ... > > > # NAGIOS SERVER running 'check_nrpe -H REMOTEHOST' or have nagios run > checks till they start to timeout. > $ ./check_npre -H REMOTEHOST > NRPE v2.11 > > > Good luck! >
Hi, I have not found anything interesting through logs. My problem has been solved by increasing the time to 30 [ -t 30 ] . Even 20 sec time gave me trouble. But I have no clue yet why any thing less than 30 sec did not work. with regards > Mark Young > ___ > Nagios Enterprises, LLC > Web: www.nagios.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > 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 > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joydeep Bakshi, Linux System Admin Kolkatainfoservices Pvt Ltd, 23A Royd Street, Kolkata 700016, India Work Phone 91 033 40014784 http://infoservices.in/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
