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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi there --</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We are running a Nagios 3.3.1 server, which is being deployed to replace an older 3.1.2 server. Part of the process involved importing </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the plugins that were in use on the old server to the new one via the Nconf utility. One such item is the check_nis plugin. This plugin</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">has been proven to work without issue on the older Nagios server, so it was thought it should be able to work like the others on the new</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">server. The plugin does appear to run without errors on the new server, but when it queries the NIS server, it gets the following error message:</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NIS CRITICAL - domain <domainname> not answering </FONT></B>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have checked the syslog.log log file of the target NIS server for any reference for errors pertaining to the plugin, but there were none. I did a</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">similar check on the Nagios server, but there were no entries as such in the nagios.log, messages, or syslog files. I also did a restart of the </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">nrpe daemon on the client to see if that would make a difference, but it did not appear to do so, neither did running the plugin from the command</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">line yield the desired results.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Does anyone have any idea as to why the script is no longer working? Thanks.</FONT>
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