On Mon, October 6, 2008 11:37 am, Charlie Reddington wrote: > I should also mention that I also have these timeouts in place... > > > service_check_timeout=90 host_check_timeout=30 event_handler_timeout=30 > notification_timeout=60 ocsp_timeout=5 perfdata_timeout=5 > > Charlie > > > On Oct 6, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Charlie Reddington wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> >> I have a couple machines that spit out a warning similar to this: >> >> >> WARNING - check_by_ssh: Remote command '/home/nagios/nagios-plugs/ >> check_disk' returned status 1 >> >> I believe this to be caused by the check itself is timing out. As >> when I try to login it will sometimes take up to a minute or two just to >> get a prompt. >> >> The server will respond to ping, so I'm generally not totally >> concerned about it. And the checks usually clear up in 5 minutes or soon >> as the server gets whatever IO hog out of the way. >> >> Is anyone else experiencing this, and if so how do you cope / deal >> with this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Charlie
The timeouts in nagios.cfg are ow long the nagios process waits before aborting a check. There are usually check specific timeouts that you can add to the command definition. Run the check_* command manually and see what the syntax is (sometimes '-t xx'). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null