Remote Linux Client Appears Down But ServicesAreMonitored

[Kaplan, Andrew H.]

> I am interpreting this to mean that the Host status for the remote host is >
CRITICAL but the services on the host, checked by NRPE, show as OK.
> If that is the case then the check_command in the host{} definition for 
> the client does not accurately determine the status of the host. What is
> that check_command and does it work if you run it as the nagios user from >
your nagios machine?

If I understand you correctly, you are referring to the check-host-alive command
in the hosts.cfg file. I'm sorry if I sound like and idiot, but there is no
check_host_alive plugin in the libexec directory. What command should I run in
this case? 

I did run the plugins on the server and client as the nagios user, and both 
came back without errors.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc Powell
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:35 PM
To: Nagios-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Remote Linux Client Appears Down But
ServicesAreMonitored



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Kaplan, Andrew H.
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:23 PM
> To: Nagios-Users (E-mail)
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Remote Linux Client Appears Down But Services
> AreMonitored
> 
> Hi there --
> 
> I have Nagios 2.6 with plugins 1.4.5, and NRPE 2.6 installed on a
server
> that is
> running Fedora Core 5. The remote client in question is running NRPE
2.6
> with
> plugins 1.4.5 on a Fedora Core 2 operating system. NRPE is configured
to
> run
> with the -n option on the server as well as the client. NRPE is
configured
> to
> run on the client via the /etc/rc.local file with the following
syntax:
> 
> 						/usr/local/nrpe/bin/nrpe
-n -c
> /usr/local/nrpe/etc/nrpe.cfg -d
> 
> The remote client appears in the web interface as down, but its
monitored
> services appear as OK. I checked the remote client to make sure the

I am interpreting this to mean that the Host status for the remote host
is CRITICAL but the services on the host, checked by NRPE, show as OK.
If that is the case then the check_command in the host{} definition for
the client does not accurately determine the status of the host. What is
that check_command and does it work if you run it as the nagios user
from your nagios machine?

--
Marc

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