NSCA Error timeout after 10 seconds

[Andreas Ericsson]

Mark Nadir wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I don't have alot of passive checking atm. I have 
> upped the # of cps within the nsca file for xinetd and that seems to 
> resolve the deactivation of connections.
> 
> However, I don't see the NSCA daemon responding to any inputs from nsca 
> clients with debugging turned on. I am investigating whether or not it 
> is a firewall issue, but I find this unlikely.
> 
> Is there anything you can think of that would prevent NSCA from 
> communicating between daemon and client?
>

Usually programs started from the inet superserver must be told that's 
what's happening (the -i switch is sort of customary for the use). Read 
the documentation for nsca, or try running it with the --help option.


> 
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> Mark Nadir wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your response. Whenever I try to telnet to the port, I 
>>> can connect to it. So, it is a pretty good chance that my firewall is 
>>> allowing TCP over 5667 to connect.
>>>
>>> I turned on debugging, and tried to use the remote client to send to 
>>> NSCA daemon, however nothing shows up in syslog.
>>>
>>> What's interesting is that if I try to use the client on the same 
>>> machine that the NSCA daemon is running, and I connect to localhost 
>>> 5667 syslog returns a messaging saying that it is Deactivating the 
>>> NSCA due to excessive incoming connections -restarting in 30 seconds.
>>>
>>
>> The fact that the port is listening has nothing to do with nsca if 
>> you're using inetd to front it. inetd listens on the port and delivers 
>> a socket to the program in the other end if it can complete the 3-way 
>> handshake.
>>
>> If you've got a lot of passive checks reporting in you might want to 
>> either run nsca as a standalone daemon or increase the number of 
>> allowed connections within any specified time.
>>
> 
> 
> 

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


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