check_smtp

[Marc Powell]

This seems reminiscent of an old issue with 'QUIT\r'. If you manually
telnet to the machine on port 25 and then QUIT, how long does that
process take? 

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Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yoder the Sheepherder [mailto:stripp at myclearwave.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:05 PM
> To: Jason Lancaster
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> What I have is:
> in checkcommands.cfg
> # 'check_smtp' command definition
> define command{
> 	command_name	check_smtp
> 	command_line	$USER1$/check_smtp -H $HOSTADDRESS$
> 	}
> 
> and in services.cfg
> # Service definition
> define service{
>          use                             generic-service         ;
Name
> of service template to use
> 
>          host_name                       clrwv-mail
>          service_description             SMTP
>          is_volatile                     0
>          check_period                    24x7
>          max_check_attempts              3
>          normal_check_interval           3
>          retry_check_interval            1
>          contact_groups                  admin
>          notification_interval           10
>          notification_period             24x7
>          notification_options            w,u,c,r
>          check_command                   check_smtp
>          }
> 
> 
> I've set up check_tcp on port 25 for now, but am still looking at what
> caused this.  A sendmail upgrade may be causing this, but not sure.
> Thank you much.
> 
> Jason Lancaster wrote:
> > Can you post your exact check command definition? The only other
thought
> > I have is you're hitting the Nagios plugin execution time limit
(default
> >  is 30s I believe) defined in nagios.cfg.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > Yoder the Sheepherder wrote:
> >
> >> The only arg I'm using is -H although I have tried it with -p, -e,
and
> >> -f.  I'm going back and checking to see if sendmail was updated
around
> >> the time this happened, but I do not believe so.
> >>
> >> Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> >>
> >>> What are the args to check_smtp in your config?
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Yoder the Sheepherder wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I've had the same problem with it on Redhat.  It was working for
> >>>> quite some time, then stopped.  I'm using check_smtp from nagios
> >>>> plugins 1.3.1 on Redhat 9.
> >>>>
> >>>> chbaker at powersystems.rockwell.com wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> The check_smtp plugin version 1.6, on Debian unstable has
started
> >>>>> giving me
> >>>>> problems over the last week or so. No matter how long I set the
> >>>>> timeout
> >>>>> period, the check always times out. Checks of other services on
the
> >>>>> same
> >>>>> boxes are fine. When I run check_smtp from the command line to a
> >>>>> server
> >>>>> that is not currently being monitored, it times out as well. The
> >>>>> servers in
> >>>>> question do have either inetd or sendmail itself listening at
port
> >>>>> 25. Any
> >>>>> ideas?
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
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