Re: [Nagios-users] Difference between the timeout service and orphaned service

2011-01-05 Thread Yueh-Hung Liu
they are not totally related. service check timeout tells when Nagios should kill a check process ACTIVELY. orphaned service check would let Nagios find out whether a check process is killed BY OTHERS. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Yu Watanabe yu.watan...@jp.fujitsu.com wrote: Hello all.

Re: [Nagios-users] Difference between the timeout service and orphaned service

2011-01-05 Thread Yu Watanabe
Thank you for the reply. Could I ask you a further question? In the manual the orphaned services are defined as This option allows you to enable or disable checks for orphaned service checks. Orphaned service checks are checks which ahve been executed and have been removed from the event

Re: [Nagios-users] Difference between the timeout service and orphaned service

2011-01-05 Thread Yueh-Hung Liu
i think Nagios handles a check by the following flow: [1]schedule a check (into event queue) [2]time to go! fire the check (remove it from the queue) [3]wait for a result [4a] check finished normally (got a result) [4b] timeout (terminate the check process) [5]go to [1]

Re: [Nagios-users] Difference between the timeout service and orphaned service

2011-01-05 Thread Yu Watanabe
Thank you for the clear explanation. The information is significantly helpful. Thanks, Yu Watanabe Yueh-Hung Liu さんは書きました: i think Nagios handles a check by the following flow: [1]schedule a check (into event queue) [2]time to go! fire the check (remove it from the queue) [3]wait

[Nagios-users] Difference between the timeout service and orphaned service

2011-01-04 Thread Yu Watanabe
Hello all. I'd like to ask a question about the service check timeout and the orphaned service check. I am looking at the manual but couldn't understand the major difference. Could someone give me an advice with the point of these two options? Thanks Yu Watanabe