NRPE services check RC=2 when agent is down

[typer100]

Hi! I mainly used NCPA but for some reasons, I had to install NRPE on some older servers.
I'm trying to configure NRPE to give me an Unknown state instead of Critical when I get a timeout on port 5666.
Seems to be the default with NCPA, but not with NRPE.

Thanks for your time.

[lmiltchev]

You could change your command to use the "-u" flag. From the plugin's usage:

-u, --unknown-timeout Make connection problems return UNKNOWN instead of CRITICAL

This way, connection problems would return "Unknown" instead of "Critical".

Example:

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$USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u -t 30 -c $ARG1$ $ARG2$

See the usage of the check_nrpe plugin by running:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -h