Nagios Support Forum

Ok, on one of my hosts that I am monitoring, I have installed xinetd and followed your instructions. My Nagios client is still giving me the UNKNOWN status and the same error message however.

No, I do not belive that xinetd is installed.

Yes my distro is RHEL.

But when I do 'service xinetd restart'

I get: xinetd.d/: unrecognized service

Yes, I know about the NTP checks. In the end I wanted to run the check_time commands with all of the servers I was monitoring and then use NTP check with the Nagios host itself. Is this the service you are referencing installing the following: http://www.brennan.id.au/09-Network_Time_Protocol.html A...

I am not trying to monitor NTP servers.
To my understanding, the check_time command compares the nagios host and the servers it is monitoring and check if there if the machines differ in time.

I am currently having trouble getting the check_time command to work correctly. Here is what is in my configuration files… Commands: #'check_time' command definition define command{ command_name check_time command_line $USER1$/check_time -H $HOSTADDRESS$ } Configuration for Server(s): define service...