Icinga check_jboss “NRPE: unable to read output”

Question

I'm using Icinga to monitor some servers and services. Most of them run fine. But now I like to monitor a JBoss-AS on one server via NRPE. Therefore I'm using the check_jboss-Plugin from MonitoringExchange. Although each time I try running a test-command from my Icinga-Server via NRPE I'm getting a NRPE: unable to read output error. When I try executing the command directly on the monitored server it runs fine. It's strange that the execution on the monitored server takes around 5 seconds to return a acceptable result but the NRPE-Exceution returns immediately the error. Trying to set up the NRPE-timeout didn't solve the problem. I also checked the permissions of the check_jboss-plugin and set them to "777" so that there should be no error. I don't think that there's a common issue with NRPE, because there are also some other checks (e.g. check_load, check_disk, ...) via NRPE and they are all running fine. The permissions of these plugins are analog to my check_jboss-Plugin.

Following one sample exceuction on the monitored server which runs fine:

/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_jboss.pl -T ServerInfo -J jboss.system -a MaxMemory -w 3000: -c 2000: -f
JBOSS OK - MaxMemory is 4049076224 | MaxMemory=4049076224

Here are two command-executions via NRPE from my Icinga-Server. Both commands are correctly

./check_nrpe -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -c check_hda1
DISK OK - free space: / 47452 MB (76% inode=97%);| /=14505MB;52218;58745;0;65273
./check_nrpe -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -c jboss_MaxMemory
NRPE: Unable to read output

Does anyone have a hint for me? If further config-information needed please ask :)

Answer 1

Try to rule out SELinux either by disabling it globally or by changing the SELinux type to nagios_unconfined_plugin_exec_t.