Marc Powell wrote: > On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Jon Angliss wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:05:39 -0500, Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Jennifer Cranfill wrote: >>> >>>> The only setting for service check timeout that I see is the global >>>> service_check_timeout setting. Is there a setting that can be >>>> applied >>>> per command or per service check? >>> All standard plugins support a timeout parameter, typically '-t >>> <seconds>' that you can pass in the command definition. Run '/path/ >>> to/ >>> plugin --help' to see if it's supported and usage. It could also be >>> passed from a service definition as a $ARGx$ macro. >> I think you missed the request. > > I don't think I did but in any event, the answer is still the same. > Use the timeout option for each plugin. Both facilities will return a > CRITICAL state indicating that there was a timeout error. Which > program reported the error, the plugin or nagios, doesn't really seem > pertinent. > > > From what I can tell, it cannot be customized per plugin. However, > if >> you set it high enough to cover all the plugins, and then set sane >> values for the -t option for the plugins you should be okay. > > Correct, there is only one if-all-else-fails timeout for all services > but when using timeout values per plugin, it should never get there > unless something really bad went wrong with the plugin.
Thanks Jon and Marc. I was looking for a way to extend the global timeout for specific service checks, but it does not seem to be possible. I guess I'll go with setting the global timeout to be large and then using -t for all services I want to timeout earlier (99% of them). Thanks again! -- Jennifer Cranfill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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
