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error general time-out (alarm signal)

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:49 am
by shamrozkadiwal
I have been getting this "error general time-out (alarm signal)" with few servers. This is just one server example. I tried to google to find the solution but nothing work.

Re: error general time-out (alarm signal)

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:50 am
by shamrozkadiwal
I have also uploaded check_command config

Re: error general time-out (alarm signal)

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 5:16 pm
by ssax
Please change your commands to these:

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define command{
        command_name check_snmp_storage_ux_root
        command_line $USER1$/check_snmp_storage.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 90 -C $ARG1$ -m / -r -q FixedDisk -w90 -c95 -G
        }

define command{
        command_name check_snmp_storage_ux_not_root
        command_line $USER1$/check_snmp_storage.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 90 -C $ARG1$ -m / -r -e -q FixedDisk -w90 -c95 -G
        }
Then edit your /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg and adjust your service_check_timeout to match:

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service_check_timeout=90
Then restart the nagios service:

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service nagios restart
Let us know if that resolves the issue.

Thank you

Re: error general time-out (alarm signal)

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 5:17 pm
by cdienger
The commands that are failing are using snmp. Is the host configured to use snmp? Check to see if it is up and responding with:

nmap 10.180.50.100 -p 161 -sU

Re: error general time-out (alarm signal)

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 5:21 pm
by tgriep
First thing to do is to verify that the Host has SNMP enabled in it and that the community string you are using in the commands are valid.
If the remote host is not setup for SNMP polling, it will cause the timeout.
Another thing, make sure the firewall allows inbound UDP connections on port 161. That is required.

And, you may need to specify the SNMP version for the check_snmp plugin's command line option.

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 -P, --protocol=[1|2c|3]
    SNMP protocol version

Re: error general time-out (alarm signal)

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:36 am
by shamrozkadiwal
cdienger wrote:The commands that are failing are using snmp. Is the host configured to use snmp? Check to see if it is up and responding with:

nmap 10.180.50.100 -p 161 -sU
It seems good to me.

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[root@ams900 ~]# nmap 10.180.50.100 -p 161 -sU

Starting Nmap 7.01 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-01-09 09:22 CST
Nmap scan report for asftp900.enclave.local (10.180.50.100)
Host is up (0.00029s latency).
PORT    STATE  SERVICE
161/udp closed snmp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.15 seconds
[root@ams900 ~]#

Re: error general time-out (alarm signal)

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:52 am
by shamrozkadiwal
ssax wrote:Please change your commands to these:

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define command{
        command_name check_snmp_storage_ux_root
        command_line $USER1$/check_snmp_storage.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 90 -C $ARG1$ -m / -r -q FixedDisk -w90 -c95 -G
        }

define command{
        command_name check_snmp_storage_ux_not_root
        command_line $USER1$/check_snmp_storage.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 90 -C $ARG1$ -m / -r -e -q FixedDisk -w90 -c95 -G
        }
Then edit your /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg and adjust your service_check_timeout to match:

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service_check_timeout=90
Then restart the nagios service:

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service nagios restart
Let us know if that resolves the issue.

Thank you
I made the changes whatever you recommended but it didn't work out. It threw error "Invalid timeout value...." you can see in the picture

Re: error general time-out (alarm signal)

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:47 pm
by tgriep
The nmap command shows that the UDP port 161 is closed so that is not good.
Check that server and verify that it is running SNMP.

The timeout error for the plugin is caused by a too large of value for the -t option, set it to 60 seconds and that will fix that.

Re: error general time-out (alarm signal)

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:57 pm
by shamrozkadiwal
tgriep wrote:First thing to do is to verify that the Host has SNMP enabled in it and that the community string you are using in the commands are valid.
If the remote host is not setup for SNMP polling, it will cause the timeout.
Another thing, make sure the firewall allows inbound UDP connections on port 161. That is required.

And, you may need to specify the SNMP version for the check_snmp plugin's command line option.

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 -P, --protocol=[1|2c|3]
    SNMP protocol version
tgriep, I checked on the server and snmpd wasn't installed so I installed it. Snmpd service is running.

Re: error general time-out (alarm signal)

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 2:05 pm
by tgriep
Thanks for the update. All that is left to do is to fix the -t value to 60 on the command and to test it out.