<HTML dir=ltr><HEAD><TITLE>Re: [Nagios-users] General tcp_check question</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16809" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV id=idOWAReplyText18794 dir=ltr> <DIV dir=ltr>Thanks a lot, and extremely sorry for this, it was just plain sloppiness from my site.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr>Regards</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr>Kashif</DIV></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc@ena.com] Sent: Thu 2/26/2009 2:56 PM To: Nagios Users Mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] General tcp_check question </DIV> <DIV> Please, please don't hijack other peoples threads for your own purposes. It's rude and confusing to future readers. Create a new post to the list when you have a new question. More below... On Feb 26, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Kashif Mohammad wrote: > But when I run > sh-3.00$ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_tcp -H "<site-2>" -t 60 -p 9002 > I get this output > CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 60 seconds > I suspect that it is an firewall issue at that site so I wanted to > know that what is underlying command of tcp_check and how can I > allow or disallow tcp_check command to run on my system if I am the > system administrator on that system. It's making a TCP connection to port 9002 and seeing if it gets a connection, nothing more. The firewall needs to permit that connection from the nagios host. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD <A href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H">http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H</A> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <A href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </DIV></BODY></HTML>