On 19.09.2013 16:13, Brian Meyer wrote: > Dear List, > > I run Icinga on a VPS monitoring about 40 public services at my site. > I've increased the timeout value for most of my individual service > checks using the appropriate command line argument (45-60 seconds). > Yesterday checks were taking longer to complete due to some network > latency issues between the VPS and my site, exceeding the 45-60 timeout > and sending out a critical alert.. Now to fix this issue and increase my > timeouts to say 90 seconds would it be best for me to edit each > individual service definition, edit the check command directly, or > change the service_check_timeout directive in the main config file? I > know by default most plugins timeout after 10 seconds and by default > icinga enforces its own timeout on all service checks that is set to 30 > seconds. What exactly does this mean? That by default Icinga will wait > 40 seconds before sending a critical alert? Not exactly sure what the > service_check_timeout directive in the main config file actually does...
it sets an alarm timeout when forking a child process in order to execute the check. if that does not return within that defined amount of time, the parent process will issues a kill command on the child, breaking out of the check process. you'll normally recognize that with a custom output message the default timeout state is unknown, but you may adjust that to critical in the main configuration file, if you require that. there isn't any additional command object attribute for check timeouts in icinga 1.x but will be provided in the new icinga 2 configuration format for Check/Notification/EventCommands. http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/snapshot/#toc96 (note: url may change once icinga 2 is final) -- DI (FH) Michael Friedrich mail: michael.friedr...@gmail.com twitter: https://twitter.com/dnsmichi jabber: dnsmi...@jabber.ccc.de irc: irc.freenode.net/icinga dnsmichi icinga open source monitoring position: lead core developer url: https://www.icinga.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users
