NSCA only accepts first check

[Andrew M. Lyons]

Thought I would forward along this fix.  It works fine after doing this, 
but we had to add nsca to /etc/services as well.

Thanks for the help!

Best,

-Andrew


Derek Olsen wrote:
> 
>   Andrew.
>  Have you verified if the nsca port is open on the monitor host after 
> you've submitted the first passive check?
> 
> telnet 127.0.0.1 5667
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> 
>  It might help you determine where the problem is if the port closes 
> after the first attempt.   It sounds like your running nsca in daemon 
> mode you might also try running it out of inetd to see if you get any 
> different behavior.   Here is my xinetd nsca config
> 
> service nsca
> {
>        flags           = REUSE
>        socket_type     = stream              wait            = no
>        user            = nagios
>        group           = nagios
>        server          = /usr/sbin/nsca
>        server_args     = -c /etc/nagios/nsca.cfg --inetd
>        log_on_failure  += USERID
>        disable         = no
>        port            = 5667
> }
> 
> 
> 
>   Anyhoo i hope i've provided some useful suggestions to narrow down 
> your issue.
>   Deet.
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to configure nsca, and I've run into a problem:  NSCA only 
>> accepts the first passive check that is sent to it, and all subsequent 
>> checks fail.
>>
>> first check:
>> [18:05:02]$ echo -e "vmp161.vampire\tMyrinet Connectivity\t0\tBLAH\n" 
>> | ./src/send_nsca -H monitor -c nsca.cfg
>> 1 data packet(s) sent to host successfully.
>>
>> second try:
>> [18:11:29]$ echo -e "vmp161.vampire\tMyrinet Connectivity\t0\tBLAH\n" 
>> | ./src/send_nsca -H monitor -c nsca.cfg
>> Error: Timeout after 10 seconds
>>
>> After restarting the nsca daemon on the monitoring host, it will again 
>> accept a single check, and all subsequent checks will timeout.
>>
>> The nsca.cfg on the remote host has only a password entry.  Here are 
>> the relevant bits from the nsca.cfg on the nagios server(monitor):
>>
>> pid_file=/var/run/nsca.pid
>> server_port=<the port>
>> server_address=<the addr>
>> nsca_user=nagios
>> nsca_group=nagios
>> debug=1
>> command_file=/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
>> alternate_dump_file=/var/log/nagios/rw/nsca.dump
>> aggregate_writes=0
>> append_to_file=0
>> max_packet_age=30
>> password=<the pw>
>> decryption_method=1
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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