CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds

[Marc-André Doll]

Hi,

This message means that your webserver didn't respond to your request
after 10s.

It's the same as when your browser is waiting and suddendly stop and
show an error page indicating that the webserver didn't respond.

Marc-André

On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 19:49 -0500, steve f wrote:
>  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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