<HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18702"></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=sans-serif></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=sans-serif>>> i have troubles in our infrastructure with nrpe giving critical alerts when the nrpe socket timeout. </FONT><BR><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">If you add the -u switch to the nrpe_check it will return a status of unknown for the nrpe timeouts instead of critical.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">The second thing is to add a check on nrpe itself and then setup all of the checks that are run by nrpe as dependancies of the nrpe check.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>This will stop all of the remote checks from generating critical alerts if the nrpe check times out.</DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">HTH,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV><FONT size=1><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG><FONT color=#da130e>Simon Finch </FONT><FONT color=#808080>|</FONT></STRONG><FONT color=#808080> <STRONG>ES</STRONG></FONT><FONT color=#808080><STRONG>M Specialist</STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT color=#da130e size=1 face=Arial><FONT color=#808080><IMG alt="" src="cid:MNPNKUMIBURH.IMAGE_1.xxx" width=87 height=33></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#da130e size=1 face=Arial><FONT color=#808080>Ground Floor, 4-16 Montgomery St, Kogarah NSW 2217</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#da130e size=1 face=Arial><FONT color=#808080><FONT face=Wingdings>(</FONT><FONT color=#808080 size=1 face=Arial>+61 2 9952 2574 </FONT><FONT color=#808080 size=1 face="Wingdings 2">7</FONT><FONT color=#808080 size=1> </FONT><FONT color=#808080 size=1 face=Arial>+61 412 256 814</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#da130e size=1 face=Arial><FONT color=#808080>Email: <A href="mailto:finchs@stgeorge.com.au">finchs@stgeorge.com.au</A><BR><A href="http://www.stgeorge.com.au/"><B><U><FONT color=#808080 size=1 face=Arial>www.stgeorge.com.au</FONT></U></B></A><BR>______________________________________</FONT><BR><EM>St.George Bank IT - Good with people. Good with monitoring.</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>