Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
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

Re: [Nagios-users] GroundWork Monitor and GroundWork Foundation

2006-12-29 Thread Peter Edmonds
On 12/29/06, John Giaccotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone evaluated either GroundWork Monitor Open Source or GroundWork Monitor Professional? If you want an easy way to evaluate Groundwork Monitor Open Source, I would suggest using Rich Trezza's excellent VMWare appliance from http:/

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
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 get

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread David Gerbec
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. Additi

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > 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 th

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
The Nagios and NRPE users on the server are set to nologin. These are the packages that came bundled with operating system. How can I get around that? -Original Message- From: David Gerbec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 8:53 AM To: Kaplan, Andrew H. Cc: Andy

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread David Gerbec
Hi! Kaplan, Andrew H. pravi: > The Nagios and NRPE users on the server are set to nologin. These are the > packages that came bundled with operating system. How can I get around that? > When posting problems, it's allways good to give away MORE info then less :o). I don't know which operating

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
I ran the chsh command to change the nologin shell for the nagios user to /bin/bash, and also provided a password for the nagios account. After that, I ran the check_nrpe command again from the command line, ie: manually, and was able to get a response back from the nrpe client. Listed below are

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread David Gerbec
Hi! Kaplan, Andrew H. pravi: > I ran the chsh command to change the nologin shell for the nagios user to > /bin/bash, and also provided a password for the nagios account. After that, > I ran the check_nrpe command again from the command line, ie: manually, and > was > able to get a response bac

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
> If i understand correctly, u ran the plugin su'ed to the nagios user and > the command completed successfully? That is correct. > If that's the case, then please check if the xinetd daemon is running > and what the setting for nagios-nrpe are for xinetd. As far as the client is concerned, nrp

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Andrew, Please don't forget to copy the list in to all your replies, so others can either get more info to help you (I've been watching for a reply), and to help other people with the same issues in the future when these mails get archived for ever-more :P Thanks Andy. David Gerbec wrote: >

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread David Gerbec
Hi! Kaplan, Andrew H. pravi: >> If i understand correctly, u ran the plugin su'ed to the nagios user and >> the command completed successfully? > > That is correct. > >> If that's the case, then please check if the xinetd daemon is running >> and what the setting for nagios-nrpe are for xinetd.

[Nagios-users] FW: Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Just in case this e-mail did not get through previously. If it had, my apologies for the repost. From: Kaplan, Andrew H. Sent: Fri 12/29/2006 9:45 AM To: 'David Gerbec' Cc: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists); Nagios Users mailinglist Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Service

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
The settings that I have in nrpe.cfg file appear to be correct, but just in case, I have included it in this e-mail. If there are no other ideas, I'll have no choice but to fall back to version 1.x of the client and server applications. From: David Gerbec [ma

Re: [Nagios-users] FW: Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
My apologies, I'm suffering from a 60-minute lag on SourceForge's mailing list for some reason - I'd got 2 replies from David before this so it looked like you hadn't copied the list in. Sorry! Now onto this e-mail... > As far as the client is concerned, nrpe is not being run via xinetd, it is

Re: [Nagios-users] GroundWork Monitor and GroundWork Foundation

2006-12-29 Thread mike conigliaro
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[Nagios-users] Multi-line Status Information Idea

2006-12-29 Thread Elliot Finley
Hello, I have a lot of custom alarms that need to generate a lot of status information. The way I deal with this is I generate an HTML file that I place on the nagios server and the one line that I return as the status is a link to this file. It would be nice if this were generalized such that i

Re: [Nagios-users] FW: Service Check Timed Out Error

2006-12-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
The initial error message that I was getting, both onscreen and from the nagios.log file, was Service Check Timed out. As an experiment I reconfigured the nrpe client and check_nrpe plugin to not use SSL by including the -n option in both cases. The error message that I am now getting is NRPE: Unab

Re: [Nagios-users] Multi-line Status Information Idea

2006-12-29 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elliot Finley > Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 10:01 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Multi-line Status Information Idea > > Hello, > > I have a lo

Re: [Nagios-users] Multi-line Status Information Idea

2006-12-29 Thread John P. Rouillard
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Elliot Finley writes: >I have a lot of custom alarms that need to generate a lot of status >information. The way I deal with this is I generate an HTML file that >I place on the nagios server and the one line that I return as the >status is a link to this file. > >

[Nagios-users] Problem Compiling NRPE 2.6 on Fedora Core 5

2006-12-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
I am trying to compile NRPE 2.6 on a system running Fedora Core 5, but I am running into issues. Whenever I try to complete the make all command as either root, sudo user, or a regular user, I get and Error 1 message. The lines shown below are a sample of the output I am seeing: dso_dlfcn.c:

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem Compiling NRPE 2.6 on Fedora Core 5

2006-12-29 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
This seems as if it could be an error in the makefile, a missing library on your system, or an incorrect path in your /etc/ld.so.conf file. Try passing "LDFLAGS=-ldl" to the configure script - eg. LDFLAGS="-ldl" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios Or, find the "dl" library (find / -name libd