On Jun 29, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Surely there's a built-in way to tell Nagios that either a particular > check can take longer, or increase the 10-second timeout within Nagios > itself? The service_check_timeout value kills runaway processes, > which this isn't.
But that's what you need to change. Think of it as the maximum amount of time a plugin is allowed to run if the plugin doesn't terminate itself within a reasonable amount of time. Misbehaving plugins are just the most common reason to hit this timeout. It should be set higher than the longest expected running time for any of your plugins. > I know increasing the timeout would impact my > performance for my other apps, but I have a separate Nagios instance > for these devices. Not necessarily. Only if your other plugins are badly behaved and don't terminate themselves in a timely manner. Mine is typically set to 60 seconds as I have some long running checks as well. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
