CHECK_FTP returns "Connection refused"

[Marc Powell]

I'm sorry, I can't help you. I've tried to be clear about what you need
to do/provide and you're either not understanding, purposely ignoring or
providing conflicting information to my questions. Perhaps someone else
will have better luck.

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Bret Goodfellow
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:01 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] CHECK_FTP returns "Connection refused"
> 
> I tried the IP address from the command line (logged in as nagios),
and
> I did get the expected reponse:
>   FTP OK - ......etc.
> There is only one daemon running for nagios.  BTW, there are other
> services setup and running okay for this particular host.  It's just
> that the service "check_ftp" responds with "Connection refused" on the
> web interface.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc
> Powell
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:54 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] CHECK_FTP returns "Connection refused"
> 
> Always respond on list so that others may benefit from your
experience.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bret Goodfellow [mailto:Bret.Goodfellow at questar.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:45 PM
> > To: Marc Powell
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] CHECK_FTP returns "Connection refused"
> >
> > Okay, I put the "echo" back in to see what was being executed.  Here
> it
> > is:
> >
> > /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ftp -H dev01
> 
> This is not possible if the information you have given previously
about
> your current host and command definitions is correct. Your command
> definition uses the $HOSTADDRESS$ macro. That value can only be
> 10.8.24.170 as defined in your host definition, therefore the output
you
> have to be seeing is
> 
> /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ftp -H 10.8.24.170
> 
> Which is correct, the configuration or the output? You must be
> restarting nagios to test the command{} definition variations so
nagios
> should be using the information you provided. Are you sure that nagios
> is reading the cfg_file(s) with the host{} definition and/or command{}
> definition you provided earlier and not some other?
> 
> > This command looks no different from what I have run from the
command
> > line.  And to answer the last question, the service has not been
> > successful from the web interface.
> 
> Nagios isn't running in a login shell so your OS could be doing
> something funny with the hostname expansion needed to perform the DNS
> lookup. *shrug*. Regardless, it should be using the IP and not the
> hostname 'dev01' anyway so I think there's something else going on.
> 

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