Red Hat Gluster Storage - Nagios monitoring component produces regular ABRT alerts

Issue

Nagios keeps failing on the console server running RHSS 3.1 on REHL6

abrt_version: 2.0.8
cmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/gluster/check_cluster_status.py Default
event_log:
executable: /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/gluster/check_cluster_status.py
hostname: boxen.example.com
kernel: 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64
last_occurrence: 1442272374
machineid: sosreport_uploader-dmidecode=bd5f7ccc07cb4ade159083aac7a9611bc8d9588e5e7672b6908d8771ef49ddb3
pkg_arch: noarch
pkg_epoch: 0
pkg_name: nagios-server-addons
pkg_release: 4.el6rhs
pkg_version: 0.2.1
time: Mon 14 Sep 2015 02:19:05 PM ACST
uid: 5076
username: nagios

backtrace:
:<string>:1:connect:error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
:
:Traceback (most recent call last):
:  File "/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/gluster/check_cluster_status.py", line 90, in <module>
:    exitStatus = findClusterStatus(args.cluster)
:  File "/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/gluster/check_cluster_status.py", line 38, in findClusterStatus
:    table = livestatus.readLiveStatus(cmd)
:  File "/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/gluster/livestatus.py", line 35, in readLiveStatus
:    s.connect(_socketPath)
:  File "<string>", line 1, in connect
:error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
:
:Local variables in innermost frame:
:self: <socket._socketobject object at 0x1c03360>
:args: ('/var/spool/nagios/cmd/live',)

when nagios is started the problem occurs every minute or so.