check_dns, check_ssh seem to time out....
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Tue Jul 6 11:16:53 CEST 2004
nemir nemiria wrote:
> Hiya.
>
> I am monitoring two separate data centres, so I set up one nagios server in each to monitor all the local servers and each other.
>
> I figure that gives me pretty good coverage. I use gnokii to send sms messages, I don't want to get things doubled up so much. This works pretty great.
>
> I setup nagios under OpenBSD 3.5 in the first data centre without a hitch.
>
> Now I am setting up a similar setup in the second data centre, but under fedora core 2 this time. I got pretty much everything workign great, except that my check_dns and check_ssh services of the remote nagios server are giving me errors.
>
> When I run them from the command line, they return positive responses.
>
> The entries in checkcommands.cfg look like:
>
> # 'check_ssh' command definition
> define command{
> command_name check_ssh
> command_line $USER1$/check_ssh -H $HOSTADDRESS$
> }
> # 'check_dns' command definition
> define command{
> command_name check_dns
> command_line $USER1$/check_dns -H www.mydomain.com -s $HOSTADDRESS$
> }
> responses from command line checks are as follows:
>
> etc]# ../libexec/check_ssh -H 192.168.141.5
> SSH OK - OpenSSH_3.8.1 (protocol 1.99)
> etc]# ../libexec/check_dns -H www.mydomain.com -s 192.168.141.5
> DNS ok - 0 seconds response time, Address(es) is/are 192.168.141.5
>
> (These are the same when I su - nagios)
>
> I am confused as to how a plugin could work from the command line, but not from the nagios daemon.
>
What's the error message in Nagios? Is it threshold related or not?
> Thanks for your attention
>
> Nemir
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