false alerts

[Marc Powell]

----Original Message----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of 'Payal
Rathod'
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 8:26 AM To: Tedman Eng
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] false alerts

> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:05:07PM -0700, Tedman Eng wrote:
> > These are not false alerts at all.  You are experiencing poor
> > performance from your internet connection to your branch office, or
> > perhaps the server or network is experiencing congestion.
> 
> Ok. So what I did on your suggestion that I tried to connect manually
to SMTP
> port immediately after the alert. And I found that it was working
though
> somewhat slow.  
> Can  I increase the wait period of nagios so that it does not generate
any 
> false alerts? 
> 

Most plugins accept a -t parameter to set the timeout. It obviously
can't be set longer than the plugin timeout you specified in nagios.cfg.
Run your plugin with --help to see what parameters it accepts and modify
your command definition accordingly.

--
Marc


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