CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds.

[J. Bakshi]

Mark Young wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2008, at 11:21 PM, J. Bakshi wrote:
>   
>> I'm not using xinetd. I'm using nrpe daemon instead.
>> May be my firewall is responsible for the problem but I'm not sure
>> Even after increasing the time with  -t 20 the commands still report
>> socket time out :-(
>>     
>
> Why not try xinetd with a simple firewall rule?  I believe most people  
> use xinetd or inetd and thus you should be able to get the most help  
> that way.  I set it up the same way the documentation states. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf 
>    Have you successfully installed NRPE before?  If not, it may be  
> time to move to a testing environment that you can have full control  
> over.
>
> That being said... Are you running SElinux?  Have you checked out your  
> relevant logs for nrpe, iptables, selinux, etc (/var/log/messages,  
> make sure debugging is turned on with NRPE)...  It may be give you  
> some interesting information.  I like to run tail on the problem  
> server then try NRPE from the monitoring server to see what is going on.
>
>
> # REMOTE SERVER running NRPE daemon continuosly running tail
> $ tail -f /var/log/messages
> Sep  4 09:35:03 dev2 nrpe[7118]: INFO: SSL/TLS initialized. All  
> network traffic will be encrypted.
> Sep  4 09:35:03 dev2 xinetd[32709]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=7118  
> duration=2(sec)
> ...
>
>
> # NAGIOS SERVER running 'check_nrpe -H REMOTEHOST' or have nagios run  
> checks till they start to timeout.
> $ ./check_npre -H REMOTEHOST
> NRPE v2.11
>
>
> Good luck!
>   

Hi,

I have not found anything interesting through logs. My problem has been
solved by increasing the time to 30
[ -t  30 ]  . Even 20 sec  time gave me trouble. But I have no clue yet
why any thing less than 30 sec  did not work.

with regards


> Mark Young
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