NRPE/Firewall issues: Assistance required.

[Gabriel - IP Guys]

Dear All,

 

I've managed to install my Nagios server (monitor), and it seems that
all is well with it. The box to be monitored(client) has NRPE running on
it. On monitor, I run

 

$ CHECK_NRPE -H *client ip* 

 

I get the CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds error message

 

On client I've run the command

 

$ iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -dport 5666 -j ACCEPT

 

This should allow all traffic directed to port 5666 to be accepted,
which in turn should kick NRPE into life and have it return

NRPE v2.12

 

I can't tell what I'm doing wrong here - as I'm sure I've done the right
thing. Any advice on getting client talking to monitor via NRPE, things
I should think about that could scupper the process would be
appreciated.

 

---

Kind Regards,

Mr Gabriel

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://www.monitoring-lists.org/archive/users/attachments/20090428/fb60cdf2/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations 
Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of 
expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry 
leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf 
and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null