On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:10:40AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:44:01PM -0500, Marc Powell wrote: > > > > 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. > > Thanks for your response. The following settings have been my nagios > config for months now: > > service_check_timeout=180 > host_check_timeout=60 > > I would expect that a service check plugin would be allowed to run for > 3 minutes. But the Web interface and log still show: > > CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds > > Obviously, I'm missing something somewhere? Do any other config > settings interact with this somehow? > > This is with 3.0.6 on FreeBSD 7.2 i386, BTW.
<Lucas smacks his own forehead and says bad things about his own upbringing> Posted so that an answer appears in the archives. I'm using "negate -u" CRITICAL in front of my check. negate has its own timeout value that must be set to extend the life of a check! Not a Nagios issue at all. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas mwlu...@blackhelicopters.org, mwlu...@freebsd.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Latest book: Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition http://www.CiscoRoutersForTheDesperate.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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