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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi there --</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We are running Nagios 3.1.2, and one of our monitored servers, running NRPE client 2.0, is occasionally</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">sending back unknown status messages to the server. An example of this is shown below:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">UNKNOWN 11-17-2009 13:10:15 0d 0h 1m 54s 2/3 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for error messages. </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">UNKNOWN 11-17-2009 13:10:15 0d 0h 1m 54s 2/3 NRPE: Call to fork() failed </FONT>
<BR> <A HREF="http://romonitor/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=2&host=space&service=Free+Space+%2Fdiskarray%2Fstripe8%2Fproton_data2+-+Clinical+Research#comments"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This service is flapping between states</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">UNKNOWN 11-17-2009 13:10:15 0d 0h 0m 54s 3/3 NRPE: Unable to read output </FONT>
<BR> <A HREF="http://romonitor/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=2&host=space&service=Free+Space+%2Fdiskarray%2Fstripe9%2Fproton_data3+-+Medullo"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This service is flapping between states</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">UNKNOWN 11-17-2009 13:06:15 0d 0h 4m 54s 3/3 NRPE: Call to fork() failed </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">UNKNOWN 11-17-2009 13:10:15 0d 0h 1m 54s 2/3 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for error messages. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The server being monitored is an HP-UX 11.00 system running on a PA-RISC chipset. I have checked the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">log files of the remote host, but there is nothing to indicate there being a problem. I have also run the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">check commands manually on the remote host, and all have returned known output. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Has anyone seen this, know what it is, and what steps can be done to stop it from occurring? Thanks.</FONT>
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