Nagios Server is monitoring my Server which hosts Windows Sharepoint.
I am getting the following 2 alerts in my inbox from Nagios Server
1. Service: C:\ Drive Space
State: CRITICAL
Additional Info:
CRITICAL – Socket timeout after 10 seconds
2. Service: CPU Load
State: CRITICAL
Additional Info:
CRITICAL – Socket timeout after 10 seconds
What do I infer from these?
Best Answer
That the check can't contact the network service that it uses to monitor your server. I'd expect it's either WMI or NSClient. You haven't said that the host is down, so I'll assume that nagios can ping the host okay. If the service wasn't running, you'd get a connection refused message, but you're getting socket timeout, which means it's failed to establish a connection within a certain amount of time. Given that you can ping the machine and that you can't reach the socket, I'd say there's probably a firewall in the way.