CHECK_FTP returns "Connection refused"

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bret Goodfellow [mailto:Bret.Goodfellow at questar.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:06 PM
> To: Marc Powell; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] CHECK_FTP returns "Connection refused"
> 
> I set up a separate command as you said, but I took out the "echo",
and
> the command executed as expected with the response coming back as:
> 
> FTP OK - 0.0003 second response time on port 21 .......

The echo was a vital part of the command I wanted you use in nagios. It
was designed specifically to output information to /tmp/nagios-runs-me
so that you could see the command nagios was executing, but not actually
execute it. This may still be informational and is worth doing right.
The key question right now though is how does this successful command
definition differ from the one you were using previously? You saw this
successful run from the web interface?

 
> Here are my config files:
> 
> Checkcommands.cfg
> # 'check_ftp' command definition
> define command{
> 	command_name	check_ftp
> 	command_line	$USER1$/check_ftp -H $HOSTADDRESS$
> 	}
> 

OK. This is good. $HOSTADDRESS$ is going to be 10.8.24.170 based on your
host definition. I am assuming at this point that $USER1$ is defined
properly. What happens when you run '/path/to/nagios/plugins/check_ftp
-H 10.8.24.170' as the nagios user?

Finally, is it possible that you had a bad host address or different
check_ftp{} command definition in the past and you've changed them
recently? You might have an old nagios daemon running in tandem with old
config information. Do you have any nagios processes running with a
start time older than your last restart?

--
Marc

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