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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I found the problem. My primary DNS server did not have the lookups in its host table but the secondary did. For some reason getting rid of the first and letting the secondary become primary solved the problem. Must have been a timeout issue or something.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Olaf Hoyer [<A HREF="mailto:ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net">mailto:ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net</A>] </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:39 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: Pete Shelfo</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Cc: 'nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-help] Check_SNMP Failure</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Pete Shelfo wrote:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> I have configured a brand new install of Nagios 1.1 on Redhat Linux</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Enterprise Edition 3.0. Everything was working with one Cisco device and a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Windows 2003 server. Once I added another Windows 2003 server all of a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> sudden all my check_snmp services started bombing out and are coming back</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> yellow with this warning:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Status Problem: No date received from host.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I ran check_snmp from the command line and it still worked on the original</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Windows 2003 server and then all of a sudden that died to. The machines are</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> up and pingable and my another checks work just fine. I use the latest of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> NSClient with no issues. My check_snmp is working fine on the Cisco device?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I added a third APC device and that worked for a little bit and then it</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> died.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Hi!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>In these cases, I run a snmp-browser from the same machine as nagios is</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>running from, to verify the problem.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I personally use mbrowse (www.mbrowse.org), that needs the x11-client</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>libraries being installed.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I use a FreeBSD box here to monitor some cyclades console devices and a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>couple of 2003 Servers, had no hassle with them, except with failures on</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>the software management agents under 2003 (misconfig on one server</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>there)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>HTH</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Olaf</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-- </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>(Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)</FONT>
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