Service Check Timed Out Error

[David Gerbec]

Hi!

Try to "su" to the user nagios is running under and try the command with
that user. Seems to me, u got premission problems....



Regards,
D.

Kaplan, Andrew H. pravi:
> I configured the ip tables on both the nagios server and the nrpe client to
> allow all inbound and outbound traffic. Additionally, I made sure the
> /etc/services file on both systems had port 5666 open to tcp and udp traffic. 
> 
> I was able to telnet to port 5666 on the nrpe client, but I was still getting a
> connection refused for the same port on the server. 
> 
> I verified also, that the network speed, ie: half vs. full duplex, was the same
> for both systems. The speed here is 100 half duplex no autonegotiation. 
> 
> I repeatedly ran the check_nrpe command manually and did get output back every
> time. Why am I able to run the command manually, but not automatically? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) [mailto:andy.shellam-lists at mailnetwork.co.uk]
> 
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 4:09 AM
> To: Kaplan, Andrew H.
> Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> It depends on your firewall configuration on the Nagios server - but 
> yes, the Nagios server will an outbound rule to allow traffic to 
> destination port 5666 on your nrpe client, and also an inbound rule to 
> allow traffic from source port 5666 on your nrpe client.
> 
> Your client will need an inbound rule allowing traffic to destination 
> port 5666 from the Nagios server, and an outbound rule allowing traffic 
> from source port 5666 to the Nagios server.
> 
> This is good for iptables anyway, FreeBSD's ipfilter is slightly 
> different but the principle's the same.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andy
> 
> Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
>> I ran the telnet <hostname> 5666 command on the nrpe client system and it did
>> connect
>> without a problem. I did the same on the nagios server, and it timed out. Do I
>> need to
>> have port 5666 open on the nagios server as well as on the client system?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
> [mailto:andy.shellam-lists at mailnetwork.co.uk]
>> Sent: Thu 12/28/2006 5:25 PM
>> To: Kaplan, Andrew H.; Nagios Users mailinglist
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out Error
>>  
>> It seems something is stopping your NRPE client from answering to the 
>> server.
>>
>> Try "telnet <nrpe_client_server> 5666" and see if it connects or times out.
>> If it times out, check firewalls/SELinux etc.
>>
>> Andy.
>>
>>
>> Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
>>   
>>> I am running Nagios 2.6 on a Fedora Core 5 system, and am trying to 
>>> monitor a remote host also running Fedora Core 5 with NRPE 2.5.2. I have
>>>
>>> configured nrpe to use SSL. The commands.cfg file on the Nagios server 
>>> has an entry for check_nrpe, and I have included the option -t 60 in the
>>>
>>> definition. The client system has a command_timeout setting of 60 as well.
>>>
>>> Whenever I try either automatically or manually monitor the remote 
>>> client, I get a Service Check Timed Out Error message. The messages
>>>
>>> and nagios.log files on the server both indicate a socket timeout 
>>> occurred. What do I need to do to correct this? Thanks.
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