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

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 the

[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

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:

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