CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds.

J. Bakshi joydeep at infoservices.in
Tue Sep 2 15:14:16 CEST 2008


Alex Dehaini wrote:
> once you login with ssh and run them at the command line that is fine.
> The issue now is nagios times out when connecting to these servers.
> Any firewalls?

Yes I have firewall since these are production server but I have rules
for nagios too

## NRPE port ####
iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p tcp -m tcp --dport 5666 -j ACCEPT

thanks for your reply

>
> Lex
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:48 PM, J. Bakshi <joydeep at infoservices.in
> <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in>> wrote:
>
>     Alex Dehaini wrote:
>     > Run the commands interactively and see if you get socket errors? You
>     > will have socket errors once you can't connect to the machine.
>     >
>
>     I have already run the command at the remote server through (SSH
>     login)
>     And all the commands are running quite normal.
>
>     I am sorry but how can I run command *interactively* ?
>     kindly enlighten me.
>     thanks
>     > Lex
>     >
>     > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:27 PM, J. Bakshi
>     <joydeep at infoservices.in <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in>
>     > <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in
>     <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Alex Dehaini wrote:
>     >     > Are all commands above giving you scoket time out or just some
>     >     of them?
>     >
>     >     At a time some of them are giving this error and next time ,
>     rest
>     >     of the
>     >     commands generates the error but the others becomes normal
>     from its
>     >     previous state
>     >
>     >
>     >     >
>     >     > Lex
>     >     >
>     >     > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:20 PM, J. Bakshi
>     >     <joydeep at infoservices.in <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in>
>     <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in>>
>     >     > <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in
>     <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in>
>     >     <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in
>     <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in>>>> wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >     Alex Dehaini wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >     Here ae the commands I'm using
>     >     >
>     >     >     # nrpe.cfg file
>     >     >     #####################
>     >     >     # Disk space
>     >     >     command[check_space]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk
>     >     check_disk -w
>     >     >     40% -c 20% -p / -u GB
>     >     >     #Mailq
>     >     >    
>     command[check_mailq]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mailq -w
>     >     10 -c
>     >     >     15 -t 10
>     >     >     #SSH
>     >     >     command[check_SSH]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ssh
>      localhost
>     >     >     #HTTP
>     >     >     command[check_web]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -H
>     >     localhost  -p
>     >     >     80 -w 2 -c 4
>     >     >
>     >     >     #IMAPS
>     >     >     /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_imap -H localhost  -p 993 -S
>     >     -w 5 -c 8
>     >     >
>     >     >     #POP3s
>     >     >     /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_pop -H localhost  -p 995
>      -w 5
>     >     -c 8
>     >     >     -t 10 -S
>     >     >
>     >     >     thanks
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     >     > socket time out means the plugin timed out after a
>     specific
>     >     >     number of
>     >     >     > time. Show use the command you are using?
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     > Lex
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:59 AM, J. Bakshi
>     >     >     <joydeep at infoservices.in
>     <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in> <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in
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>     >     <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in
>     <mailto:joydeep at infoservices.in>>>>> wrote:
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     Dear list,
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     Now I am monitoring some servers with nagios and
>     nrpe.
>     >     >     >     But some times there is an error msg as
>     "critical" and
>     >     it is
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     ******  CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds.
>     >     ******
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     How can I fix this ?
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     will -t help ?
>     >     >     >     thanks
>     >     >     >
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