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. Thanks, ==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
