Socket error: Connection refused

[Lionel Magallon]

OK, I've got no nrpe running anywhere. So I'll be looking on that 
direction. What is surprising, is that I can monitore the disk of my 
nagios server but, without any nrpe installed on it.

Jason Martin wrote:

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>A 'connection refused' means that nrpe isn't running at all, or isn't 
>configured in inetd. 'Connection Refused' means that the kernel wasn't 
>expecting a connection to that port. If NRPE is running but isn't 
>configured to allow connections from that particular host then you'd get a 
>connection that would open and immediately close.
>
>- -Jason Martin
>
>
>On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Rudy Montemayor wrote:
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>>Yo,
>>
>>If you are using NRPE check the nrpe.cfg file on the client for the allowed_hosts line:
>>
>># ALLOWED HOST ADDRESSES
>># This is a comma-delimited list of IP address of hosts that are allowed
>># to talk to the NRPE daemon.
>>
>>allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1,<your nagios system IP here>
>>
>>Save the file and restart nrpe daemon on client.
>>
>>Rudy
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
>>[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Matt
>>Cowger
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:12 AM
>>To: Yo
>>Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Socket error: Connection refused
>>
>>
>>What happens if you run the plugin manually from the command line? 
>>Which plugin is this exactly?  Are you sure the daemon is running on the 
>>server you are checking?
>>
>>Yo wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to monitore the disk usage of a server. I've overcomed the 
>>>'No perf-definition for service' and 'Unknown Perf-service' error 
>>>messages, but now I've got a 'Socket error: Connection refused', even if 
>>> the server is reachable, the network works and there's no tcp port 
>>>filtering on the network.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem ?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Yo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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