Can not check Debian host

[Petrucci, Joseph]

First try to telnet to port 5999 you will not get a logon but if you get a connection that port is opened. Are you running a firewall on the Debian machine (iptables, etc.....)? you might want to check that. 

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>Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 1:21 PM
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Can not check Debian host
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>Ross Wentworth wrote:
>
>> Wim wrote:
>>
>>> I have installed nagios 1.2 on a linux Suse 9.3. Everything works 
>>> fine, only I have also to check one Debian (3.1) host. 
>Their is nrpe 
>>> (Version 1.9) running as  a daemon. When I check locally 
>(check_users 
>>> -w 3 -c 5) its working fine. When I check this from the 
>nagios server 
>>> (check_nrpe -H 'hostname' -p 'port' -c check_users) I have this as 
>>> output
>>>
>>> CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds
>>>
>>> On the Debian Serv er I become this as error
>>>
>>> nrpe: Could not read request from client, bailing out...
>>>
>> Check the "allowed_hosts" directive in nrpe.cfg on the debian box.  
>> Also check your firewall to make sure it's allowing stuff through 
>> (default port is 5666).
>>
>>
>Thanks, but this is not the problem, host is allowed and its 
>behind the 
>firewall, so nothing in between. Any other ideas??
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