Problem with socket timeouts.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Dru wrote:
> I changed it to 50 seconds and it still timed out.

This sounds like a firewall issue. You realise you need to open up all 
the firewalls for the checks to run through, right?

> I tried installing 
> from source and redid all the .cfg files and I got the same problem with 
> socket time outs.

Shouldn't matter. What does nmap tell you about tcp connectivity?

>  If it fails to run the plugin in some way does it 
> generate a socket time out error?

Only if it hangs forever waiting for a response. If the other end drops 
the packets completely that is exactly what happens (hence 'socket 
timeout').

> is there anyway to enable more 
> debugging so i can get a lot more details on the error and how it called 
> check_smtp etc?
> 

Not that I know of, know. A few of the plugins support the -d option to 
turn on debug output. Run them manually with -h and see.

> Big brother seems to work fine with smtp etc.
> 

Is it running on the same machine? What happens if you set the big 
brother box to have the IP of the Nagios can?

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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