<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>check_nis plugin not getting responses</TITLE> <META content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19154"></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Hi there --</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>I found the answer to the problem: I had not installed the NIS package on the Nagios server. The package includes</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>the ypbind binary which is needed for the check_nis plugin to operate. Once the ypbind binary was in place, the </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>check of the NIS server was successful. </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: Kaplan, Andrew H. Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 1:30 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] check_nis plugin not getting responses </DIV> <DIV></DIV> Hi there -- We are running a Nagios 3.3.1 server, which is being deployed to replace an older 3.1.2 server. Part of the process involved importing the plugins that were in use on the old server to the new one via the Nconf utility. One such item is the check_nis plugin. This plugin has been proven to work without issue on the older Nagios server, so it was thought it should be able to work like the others on the new server. The plugin does appear to run without errors on the new server, but when it queries the NIS server, it gets the following error message: NIS CRITICAL - domain <domainname> not answering I have checked the syslog.log log file of the target NIS server for any reference for errors pertaining to the plugin, but there were none. I did a similar check on the Nagios server, but there were no entries as such in the nagios.log, messages, or syslog files. I also did a restart of the nrpe daemon on the client to see if that would make a difference, but it did not appear to do so, neither did running the plugin from the command line yield the desired results. Does anyone have any idea as to why the script is no longer working? Thanks. The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. </BODY></HTML>