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Hi Team,

Iam currently using Nagios XI and iam facing this issue in couple of servers."CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 30 seconds"

Previously the command was:

define command {
command_name check_nrpe
command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 30 -c $ARG1$ $ARG2$

I increased the timeout to 60.

define command {
command_name check_nrpe
command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 60 -c $ARG1$ $ARG2$

But still the issue persisits.

Help me to resolve this issue.

Hello @Soumya2925,

Is this happening on and off again or have you not been able to return checks results at all. If increasing the timeout values is not helping, the next step is to make sure NRPE is up and running on the remote host.

Log into the remote host and If NRPE is using xinetd you can check the status with service xinetd status, otherwise, run the following command: If it's running on the remote host, did you open a port on the remote host's firewall. If not, we have instructions for creating firewall rules and troubleshooting this error on our knowledegbase at:
NRPE - CHECK_NRPE: Socket Timeout After n Seconds