change service check timeout in Nagios

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:10:40AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> 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.

<Lucas smacks his own forehead and says bad things about his own
upbringing>

Posted so that an answer appears in the archives.

I'm using "negate -u" CRITICAL in front of my check.  negate has its
own timeout value that must be set to extend the life of a check!

Not a Nagios issue at all.

==ml

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