Service Check Timed Out Error

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

It seems something is stopping your NRPE client from answering to the 
server.

Try "telnet <nrpe_client_server> 5666" and see if it connects or times out.
If it times out, check firewalls/SELinux etc.

Andy.


Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
>
> I am running Nagios 2.6 on a Fedora Core 5 system, and am trying to 
> monitor a remote host also running Fedora Core 5 with NRPE 2.5.2. I have
>
> configured nrpe to use SSL. The commands.cfg file on the Nagios server 
> has an entry for check_nrpe, and I have included the option –t 60 in the
>
> definition. The client system has a command_timeout setting of 60 as well.
>
> Whenever I try either automatically or manually monitor the remote 
> client, I get a Service Check Timed Out Error message. The messages
>
> and nagios.log files on the server both indicate a socket timeout 
> occurred. What do I need to do to correct this? Thanks.
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