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Asked: 2013-05-06 18:08:24 +0800 CST

Linux/RHEL Server Down with "xinetd" Alerts?

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Suddenly one of my RHEL 6 Server [VM] (serving Apache on it also) went down and when i rebooted it, i saw several of following /var/log/messages as latest before it went down:

May  4 08:16:37 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19307 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:16:37 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19307 duration=0(sec)
May  4 08:17:08 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19363 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:17:08 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19363 duration=0(sec)
May  4 08:18:38 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19417 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:18:38 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19417 duration=0(sec)
May  4 08:18:40 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19420 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:18:42 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19420 duration=2(sec)
May  4 08:21:37 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19574 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:21:37 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19574 duration=0(sec)
May  4 08:21:38 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19577 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:21:38 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19577 duration=0(sec)
May  4 08:21:38 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19580 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:21:38 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19581 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:21:38 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19580 duration=0(sec)
May  4 08:21:38 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19581 duration=0(sec)
May  4 08:24:31 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19701 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:24:31 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19701 duration=0(sec)
May  4 08:24:49 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19713 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:24:49 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19713 duration=0(sec)
May  4 08:25:17 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19745 from=10.xx.xx.xx
May  4 08:25:17 localhost xinetd[1928]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=19745 duration=0(sec)
  • What does it mean please?
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1 Answers

  1. It is connections from Nagios server with Nagios NRPE(Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) which executes checks on other hosts remotely, obviously in collaboration with xinetd. So I do not think it has anything to do with your machine been down, it is not a symptom.

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