diff --git a/includes/polling/unix-agent.inc.php b/includes/polling/unix-agent.inc.php
index b99617b906..02bcd3098f 100644
--- a/includes/polling/unix-agent.inc.php
+++ b/includes/polling/unix-agent.inc.php
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ if ($device['os_group'] == 'unix' || $device['os'] == 'windows') {
     $poller_target = Device::pollerTarget($device['hostname']);
     $agent = fsockopen($poller_target, $agent_port, $errno, $errstr, \LibreNMS\Config::get('unix-agent.connection-timeout'));
 
-    // Set stream timeout (for timeouts during agent  fetch
-    stream_set_timeout($agent, \LibreNMS\Config::get('unix-agent.read-timeout'));
-    $agentinfo = stream_get_meta_data($agent);
-
     if (! $agent) {
         echo 'Connection to UNIX agent failed on port ' . $agent_port . '.';
     } else {
+        // Set stream timeout (for timeouts during agent  fetch
+        stream_set_timeout($agent, \LibreNMS\Config::get('unix-agent.read-timeout'));
+        $agentinfo = stream_get_meta_data($agent);
+
         // fetch data while not eof and not timed-out
         while ((! feof($agent)) && (! $agentinfo['timed_out'])) {
             $agent_raw .= fgets($agent, 128);