NRPE Plugin timed out after 10 seconds

[Joe Giles]

Joe Giles wrote:

> Ok, I'm kind of new to this NRPE thing and I don't understand something.
>
> I have it all set up on a remote host and I have a number of plug ins 
> working and reporting OK on my end. However, just for testing, I stop 
> my pop server (check_pop), it comes back as critical, and the pop and 
> the host turn red and I get my e-mails/pages and its working great. 
> However, when I start the pop service back up, the POP services 
> changes back to OK, but the host still shows down and this info Plug 
> in timed out after 10 seconds.
>
> This happens while all the other services are ok. The only way to get 
> it to show good again is to stop and restart the Nagios daemon on the 
> host server. Then, its ok.
>
> How can I fix this. Its quite annoying. Also, the e-mails I get are 
> generic stating that the host is down and doesn't tell me that the pop 
> server is down.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>
>
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Ok, I forgot to mention....

This is for Linux (Gentoo), using Nagios version 1.2 and version  2.0 of 
NRPE.

Thanks!!!


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