Nagios Support Forum

Hello
I have been trying to monitor my Windows 2003 server using nagios, I am not having much luck. I tried to use this guide: http://www.telnetport25.com/2012/01/ins ... onitoring/

I have completed the previous two parts and the one above but on all my services for the windows server I get the error 'CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds '. Why could this be happening? I am quite confused because I thought I had followed the guide exactly.
Thanks,
Jethro

Is there a firewall between the Nagios server and the exchange server? Are you able to ping the exchange server from the command line (Just to ensure connectivity)? Assuming yes to both of these then check the NSClient.log and it should tell you why it won't play nice with the Nagios server.

My guess is there's something very simple you might have missed like one side has SSL enabled and the other doesn't or there's a typo in the secret or something. It could also be that you haven't restarted the NSclient service to apply config changes. It will most likely be something little like that.