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oh thank you so much for clarifying and explaining that. it makes perfect sense why the check_ftp command works but the nrpe check would send an alert. as for do i really want nrpe to do the checks? i'm not sure ... all this was put in place before i started working here so i'll have to check with t...

Well the reason it is not working is because you have it set to use check_nrpe, not check_ftp. Also, did you put "servername.serverdomain" on purpose to hide the real host address, or is that what you actually have in your config? it was working just fine for months with that configuratio...

services.cfg: define service { host_name servername.serverdomain service_description FTP initial_state o is_volatile 0 max_check_attempts 7 normal_check_interval 2 retry_interval 1 first_notification_delay 0 active_checks_enabled 1 passive_checks_enabled 1 check_period 24x7 parallelize_check 1 obses...

nagios is telling me: CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds

but when i do a manual check_ftp command, i get this: FTP OK - 0.010 second response time on port 21

the load average on the target server is not high at all in relation to how it normally runs.

any ideas?