On Oct 6, 2008, at 11:03 AM, James wrote: > 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'). >
I thought I had did that already , and just put the --timeout option on the check_by_ssh, but I guess not. I added the timeout, from 30 to 60. We'll see how it goes. Charlie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
