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I think if that line doesn't run then NSCA doesn't start at all and my passive checks aren't picked up - tailing the log without having run that leaves it basically empty, nothing being received

Seems that way - I have to killall nsca twice

No pattern that I can see - sometimes it's overnight or on the weekend, sometimes it's in the middle of the working day. I've implemented the cronjob which restarts NSCA and that has seen an improvement but it still drops out every now and then. I have tailed the log and basically all input stops, t...

Still having this issue if anyone has any bright ideas.

I used the cronjob and it's been a little better since then but every now and then it still drops out with the same error.

Checking in the NSCA .log file of the client machines sometimes reveals this: 2012-08-09 05:55:59: error:modules\NSCAAgent\NSCAThread.cpp:286: <<< Could not connect to: 46.20.226.250:5667 10060: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, ...

Hi everyone, Need a little help. Getting a CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds error on all my services intermittently. Seems to happen every 10-12 hours or so. Nagios core installed on CentOS 5.8 - using only passive checks on Windows servers and services. Think the problem is probably relat...