NSCA daemon deactivated due to excessive incoi ng connections?

[Gerald Wichmann]

Nevermind found the problem.. newer versions of xinetd have a "cps"
parameter that by default in xinetd.conf is set to "25 30".. this parameter
dictates the max # of connections per second (25) that a service can handle
before xinetd shuts it down (DOS attack protection).. the second argument
specifies how many seconds it waits before starting the service again (30)..
 
I just had to edit /etc/xinetd.d/nsca and add "cps 200 10" to increase the #
of connections per second it can handle.
 
Gerald Wichmann
Senior Systems Development Engineer
Zantaz, Inc.
925.598.3099 (w)
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Wichmann 
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:37 PM
To: Nagios (E-mail)
Subject: [Nagios-users] NSCA daemon deactivated due to excessive incoing
connections?
 
I have 2 distributed servers and 1 central nagios server. The central nagios
server in /var/log/messages I see regular entries "xinetd[717]: Deactivating
service nsca due to excessive incoming connections. Restarting in 30
seconds." And then the service is activated again.
 
I'm rather surprised by it as I don't really have that many services that
I'm monitoring.. around 130 in total. Any ideas what I should look at to
rectify these messages?
 
Thanks,
Gerald
 


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