Error: Socket Timeout after 10 seconds | Using Sun Sparc as Nagios Client

[Jonathan Angliss]

On 10/21/10 00:22, Himanshu Arora wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Using Sun Sparc 10.5 as a Nagios Client and CentOS 5 on Server side and
> can telnet the client from server and server from client on port 5666.
> Installed NRPE 1.9 on sparc machine and running it via daemon, able to
> get the nrpe response locally on sparc machine but when i try to get
> response at server from the client by running ./check_nrpe -H
> <nagios-client-sparc-ip> it gives me *"CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after
> 10 seconds"*
>
> Just an FYI, i have openssl-1.0.0a-sol10-sparc-local installed on my
> sparc machine and have no issues running NRPE locally.
>
> Have no idea what m i doing wrong so far... would need your help knowing
> what could be reason of this error message.

Have you checked to make sure it's listening on more than 
localhost/127.0.0.1 (server_address)? Any firewalls on the box? Did you 
add the nagios host to the allowed_hosts?

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