CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds

[steve f]

 Most
plugins time out after 10 seconds of not being able to contact a
service (FTP, HTTP, etc). If the plugins are timing out after a short
period of time, increase the timeout value for the plugin using the
appropriate command line argument for that plugin. Try using a -t 12.  

I think that only the plugin timeout default value is 10 seconds, the other timeouts are higher.  Someone else smarter than me can verify that.

Is this check_http failing every time now or only occasionally ?  Try running the check to a different site and see if those fail as well.

Is the server possibly busy at the same time??

Let us know what you find out.

Steve

Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:30:55 -0500
From: akpgeek at gmail.com
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds

Hi all -
           I have been using nagios for a while to check whether some our web sites are  up and running
following is the line from the commands.cfg

command_line $USER1$/check_http -w 5 -c 10  -H our_dns_name -u /siteName -S -v

It was working fine. Starting this afternoon, it started giving Socket time out. Logs have no information. Can you please share your experiences ?


Regards


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