CHECK_FTP returns "Connection refused"

[Bret Goodfellow]

I tried the IP address from the command line (logged in as nagios), and
I did get the expected reponse: 
  FTP OK - ......etc.
There is only one daemon running for nagios.  BTW, there are other
services setup and running okay for this particular host.  It's just
that the service "check_ftp" responds with "Connection refused" on the
web interface.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc
Powell
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:54 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] CHECK_FTP returns "Connection refused"

Always respond on list so that others may benefit from your experience.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bret Goodfellow [mailto:Bret.Goodfellow at questar.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:45 PM
> To: Marc Powell
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] CHECK_FTP returns "Connection refused"
> 
> Okay, I put the "echo" back in to see what was being executed.  Here
it
> is:
> 
> /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ftp -H dev01

This is not possible if the information you have given previously about
your current host and command definitions is correct. Your command
definition uses the $HOSTADDRESS$ macro. That value can only be
10.8.24.170 as defined in your host definition, therefore the output you
have to be seeing is 

/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ftp -H 10.8.24.170

Which is correct, the configuration or the output? You must be
restarting nagios to test the command{} definition variations so nagios
should be using the information you provided. Are you sure that nagios
is reading the cfg_file(s) with the host{} definition and/or command{}
definition you provided earlier and not some other?

> This command looks no different from what I have run from the command 
> line.  And to answer the last question, the service has not been 
> successful from the web interface.

Nagios isn't running in a login shell so your OS could be doing
something funny with the hostname expansion needed to perform the DNS
lookup. *shrug*. Regardless, it should be using the IP and not the
hostname 'dev01' anyway so I think there's something else going on.

--
Marc

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