check_smtp

[Yoder the Sheepherder]

It was a timing issue after all.  I set -t 15 and it's working again. 
There must have been a change on the network itself, as telneting to 
port 25 now takes right at 10 seconds.
Many thanks for the help.
Much appreciated.

Marc Powell wrote:
> 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? 
> 
> --
> 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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