<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> if you are running it through xinetd like you are supposed to then there is a log entry created on the system like so xinetd[673]: START: nrpe pid=27671 from........ -h <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Hari Sekhon </pre> Paul Roberts wrote: <blockquote cite="mid001501c7778a$9c4a84b0$280a000a@7digital.local" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name="GENERATOR"> <div dir="ltr" align="left">Sorry I don't want it to work locally just wanted to see if it ran</div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us"> <hr tabindex="-1">From: Hari Sekhon [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:hpsekhon@googlemail.com">mailto:hpsekhon@googlemail.com</a>] Sent: 05 April 2007 14:58 To: Paul Roberts Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Socket timeout issue </div> how do you mean if nrpe will work locally? if you want to use nrpe on the local machine you can just give it the hostname or the ip address (but you can't use "localhost" as it will fail in the SSL handshake) -h <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Hari Sekhon </pre> Paul Roberts wrote: <blockquote cite="mid001101c77789$3e311f20$280a000a@7digital.local" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Command line I just wanted to see if nrpe would work locally -----Original Message----- From: Hari Sekhon [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:hpsekhon@googlemail.com">mailto:hpsekhon@googlemail.com</a>] Sent: 05 April 2007 14:37 To: Paul Roberts Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Socket timeout issue aren't you missing a -c before check_disk? typo on command line or typo in email? -h Hari Sekhon Paul Roberts wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi All, Can someone help out with my CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds issue. I have Nagios running on a Debian server, runs tests to Windows Boxes OK. I am attempting to do remote checks of an Debian server. I can telnet on port 5666 to the remote server, netstat -l reports: tcp 0 0 *:nrpe *:* LISTEN I can run this check on the remote server: # /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 10.0.10.200 -p 5666 -t 30 check_disk # NRPE v2.0 What information/configurations files do you need from me? Regards Paul Roberts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEV">http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEV</a> DEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">reporting any issue. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html>