# No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it **URL:** \ **Category:** Service Monitoring\ **Created:** [January 27, 2025, 10:49am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505 "2025-01-27T10:49:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/u/ChrisIAS)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:49am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/1 "2025-01-27T10:49:58Z")
Hi, i’ve got some Windows Servers, i am monitoring with icinga. In the last 5month i monitored this machine without any issues. For the usual services(cpu, ram, filesystem), i use an appy rule, to do the same checks on every machine, I have. Only this machine, decided to throw an Error after the weekend: _A plugin failed to fetch Performance Counter information. Please ensure the counter is written properly and available on your system._ _I don’t know what changed and leaded to this error._ I tried to fix it with, no success. I uninstalled the Agent and reinstalled it. Now I am at the point where my master can connect to the agent on the windows server, but when I would like to check cpu, ram, or filesystem I get error: _Can’t connect to IfW API on host ‘localhost’ port ‘5668’: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it [system:10061 at C:\local\boost\_1\_86\_0-Win64\boost/asio/detail/win\_iocp\_socket\_connect\_op.hpp:104:5 in function ‘do\_complete’]_ The usual solution on the internet for this is to switch of the firewall. I switched it off. nothing changed. -the Windows firewall is completly switched off -I haven’t got any endpoint protection on this machine installed(no virusscan, etc) -i don’t use a proxy -Icinga master and this windows machine are in the same subnet and communicating without any router or hardware-firewall in between. Does anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot this? Thanks for your advice, in advance Best regards Chris an overview how it looks like: ![grafik](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/411f5ec76186e2c9e76358dfc4ca3099ef66911e.png) ---
**Author:** ![moreamazingnick](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/moreamazingnick/32/7725_2.png) [@moreamazingnick](https://community.icinga.com/u/moreamazingnick)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/2 "2025-01-27T21:53:56Z")
It looks like you killed the icinga powershell framework and the checks executed by the ifw-api. You can start to troubleshoot: - open powershell type `Use-Icinga` ---
**Author:** ![ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/u/ChrisIAS)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 11:04am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/3 "2025-01-31T11:04:51Z")
> [@moreamazingnick](#): > > Use-Icinga Hi Moreamazingnick Thank you for your replay. i can call this command, nothing happens. No error, no promt. Is this the right behaviour? ![image](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/7/771ef10630053c785ccd2bb1b81fbda6eed2e07e.png) ---
**Author:** ![moreamazingnick](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/moreamazingnick/32/7725_2.png) [@moreamazingnick](https://community.icinga.com/u/moreamazingnick)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/4 "2025-01-31T11:19:39Z")
Your Powershell framework is there. Is the icinga powershell service in the state running or stopped? ---
**Author:** ![ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/u/ChrisIAS)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/5 "2025-01-31T12:07:03Z")
both services are running: ![image](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4ae9e9fc8a057e843785665db23b4490b1416327.png) ---
**Author:** ![moreamazingnick](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/moreamazingnick/32/7725_2.png) [@moreamazingnick](https://community.icinga.com/u/moreamazingnick)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/6 "2025-01-31T17:26:59Z")
What is the output of this on your Maschine: > use-icinga > Test-IcingaForWindowsService If you Agentin powershell framework 1.13 update to 1.13.1 first ---
**Author:** ![ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/u/ChrisIAS)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 8:06am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/7 "2025-02-03T08:06:00Z")
Hi Moreamazingnick Okay, i just installed the latest version: ![image](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/5/50256a80224381c3e75f48371923a7a017819335.png) The output is: ![image](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d22ec84082dd462e0631c8b3d4dc58e7dbd52207.png) this looks okay. > [@moreamazingnick](#): > > powershell framework ---
**Author:** ![henning](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@henning](https://community.icinga.com/u/henning)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/8 "2025-10-16T14:00:02Z")
Hi Chris, did you solve this? Otherwise please try `Test-IcingaForWindows`. With IfW-Framework 1.13.3 the output should look similar to this: ![grafik](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e2a74b93b4bd9742bc0894520f37fb1f3af54595.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/u/ChrisIAS)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 8:45am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/9 "2025-10-22T08:45:32Z")
Hi Henning, no, I is still have this Problem. The output of your command is: ![image](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b4ebe5174bffbe5369bff6b179f41b6fe3aa1c16.png) I wanted to make shure to have the latest version, so I did: `Use-Icinga Update-Icinga Install-IcingaSecurity` It’s telling me. The JEA profile is succsessfully installed. ![image](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3c4cb22d804dcd85678963e4679e6b28833b76b5.png) Still, “the computers says NO!” I am getting the same error from the first screenshot. ---
**Author:** ![redian](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@redian](https://community.icinga.com/u/redian)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/10 "2025-11-20T07:33:08Z")
Hi Chris, I hope you could solve your issue by now. I stumbeled upon your post when I got this very similar error below. My problem was that winrm did not start automatically. Have you checked its service is running? `Get-Service WinRM` You can also get a look into the config: `winrm get winrm/config` > Can’t connect to IfW API on host ‘localhost’ port ‘5668’: Es konnte keine Verbindung hergestellt werden, da der Zielcomputer die Verbindung verweigerte [system:10061 at C:\local\boost\_1\_89\_0-Win64\boost/asio/detail/win\_iocp\_socket\_connect\_op.hpp:104:5 in function ‘void \_\_cdecl boost::asio::detail::win\_iocp\_socket\_connect\_op\,​class boost::asio::executor\>::do\_complete(void \*,​class boost::asio::detail::win\_iocp\_operation \*,​const class boost::system::error\_code &,​unsigned \_\_int64)’] ---
**Author:** ![ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@ChrisIAS](https://community.icinga.com/u/ChrisIAS)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/14505/11 "2025-11-20T08:55:13Z")
Hi, some days ago, i contacted netways to see if they can help. They discovered that we got problems with JEA Profile. This commands fixt the Problems: `Update-IcingaJEAProfile` and `Test-IcingaForWindows -ResolveProblems` Since this session, the servers/Agents work well. We still in testing and observe, if it’s happening again.