nsca / xinetd "Failed to contact identity serv er"

[Tedman Eng]

Try removing the "USERID" from logging options in xinetd.conf (or
/etc/xinetd.d/<file>) for your nsca/nrpe.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gullett [mailto:dgullett at symmetrixtech.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 4:02 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nsca / xinetd "Failed to contact identity
> server"
> 
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem?  I am getting 
> "Failed to contact
> identity server" every few days and have to restart xinetd.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David Gullett
> Symmetrix Technologies
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Michael J
> McCafferty
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:13 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] nsca / xinetd "Failed to contact 
> identity server"
> 
>   I built a distributed Nagios setup for a customer. It 
> monitors about 200
> hosts. The central Nagios server monitors several dozen hosts 
> actively, and
> the
> distributed Nagios servers monitor the rest. The distributed 
> Nagios servers
> are
> due to network architecture, not for capacity. Almost all 
> checks are done
> every
> minute. The distributed Nagios servers send their check 
> results back to the
> central Nagios host via NSCA, using xinetd to listen for 
> inbound connections
> from the remote Nagios hosts.
>    With the exception of having to increase the connections 
> per second and
> the
> number of instances for xinetd some time ago (upped it to 60 
> connections), I
> have had no problems with the setup... until today.
>    Today I updated the kernel and rebooted. When the system 
> came back up the
> central Nagios server said there where hosts down on one of the remote
> networks
> which are checked by the remote Nagios servers. Upon further 
> investigation I
> realized that they had been "down" (actually it was new FW 
> rule that made
> them
> appear to be down cuz they can't be pinged anymore) for some 
> time (6 days),
> but
> were just now being reported down by Nagios. The exact moment 
> of the last
> successful receipt of data from the remote Nagios servers was 
> the exact
> moment
> the following message began appearing in /var/log/messages:
> 
> 
> May 16 10:48:46 nagioshost xinetd[21405]: Failed to contact 
> identity server
> a
> t 172.16.0.1: timeout
> May 16 10:48:48 nagioshost xinetd[21406]: Failed to contact 
> identity server
> at
> 192.168.1.2: timeout
> May 16 10:48:49 nagioshost xinetd[21407]: Failed to contact 
> identity server
> at
> 10.0.0.1: timeout
> 
> 
> These messages appear every few seconds from the time of the 
> last successful
> receipt of data from the distributed Nagios servers (6days 
> ago) until the
> reboot
> today. The IP addresses in the messages are the IP addresses 
> of the remote
> Nagios servers. No FW rules have changed to cause this. I see 
> no outbound
> port
> 113 (identd) traffic at the main Nagios server. I am sure 
> this is a xinetd
> issue...
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1) What does this error message mean.
> 2) What broke ?
> 3) How do I keep it from breaking again ?
> 
>    In the meantime I set up a check_log check to see if the 
> message appears
> in
> the messages file again.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> 
> -- 
> ************************************************************ 
> Michael J. McCafferty 
> Principal, Security Engineer 
> M5 Hosting
> 858-576-7325 Voice 
> http://www.m5hosting.com 
> ************************************************************
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