Re: [Nagios-users] Timeout and critical error false alarms

2012-04-25 Thread Alex
Hi Alex, > TBH, I'm really not sure. Those settings look fine to me. If I had to > guess I'd say this was caused by network issues, where the plugin, for > some reason, is unable to connect to the host every so often. I'm not > sure a longer timeout would help. Are there any unreliable points in t

Re: [Nagios-users] Timeout and critical error false alarms

2012-04-25 Thread Alex Griffin
TBH, I'm really not sure. Those settings look fine to me. If I had to guess I'd say this was caused by network issues, where the plugin, for some reason, is unable to connect to the host every so often. I'm not sure a longer timeout would help. Are there any unreliable points in the network bet

Re: [Nagios-users] Timeout and critical error false alarms

2012-04-20 Thread Alex
Hi, > How are you connecting to these boxes (what check commands are you using)? For clamd, I'm using "check_nrpe!check_procs_clamd" on the nagios side and the following on the client side: command[check_procs_clamd]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_clamd -H /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock For smt

Re: [Nagios-users] Timeout and critical error false alarms

2012-04-20 Thread Alex Griffin
How are you connecting to these boxes (what check commands are you using)? Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I have a few fc16 boxes and often times alerts are generated for > timeouts while connecting to a remote service on a client such as > clamd or smtpd: >

[Nagios-users] Timeout and critical error false alarms

2012-04-20 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a few fc16 boxes and often times alerts are generated for timeouts while connecting to a remote service on a client such as clamd or smtpd: PROCS CRITICAL: 0 processes with command name 'smtpd', UID = 89 (postfix) Why is it that this happens? It doesn't happen all the time. I know the