[Nagiosplug-help] check_udp question

[Steve Belt <rgpg70>]

Hello,

I am fairly new to nagios and have a question about the check_udp
plugin.  I am attempting to use the plugin to monitor the syslogd
process on several machines.  I am using the following format:

check_udp -H xx.xx.xx.xx -p 514
(syslogd listed as 514/udp in /etc/services)

However, whenever I run the command I always get the following results:

No data was recieved from host!
No response from host on port 514

The syslogd process is running on the machine.  If I kill syslogd, the
command returns:

No response from host on port 514

which is expected.  Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions as to why
this is occurring and how to fix/workaround it?

Thanks,

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