Plugin timeouts

[Tom DE BLENDE]

Depends on what plugin you are using. Most plugins take the "-t switch".

DTerrell at Delphi-Tech.com wrote:
> HI all,
> 
> Having a problem where nagios assums since the plugin timed out after 10
> seconds the service is dead.  Is there any way to increase this threshold?
> What ends up happening is we get two back-to-back e-mails regarding the
> service, within seconds of each other.  One says it's down, the other says
> it's up!  I know this is almost definately because the machine is trying to
> check a whole bunch of things at once and getting a little over loaded.  We
> have three nagios boxes: 1 front-end and 2 distributed...
> 
> Tia
> -Dave
> 
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