Strange timeout discrepancy

Boyer, Timothy A. Timothy.Boyer at opm.gov
Fri Mar 4 15:56:06 CET 2011


> Boyer, Timothy A. wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting the usual nrpe timeout on a slow network here. Error 
>> messages says
>>
>> CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 30 seconds.
>>
>> And normally know how to fix it. The really strange thing is that the 
>> client has timeouts set to 60 in nrpe.cfg:
>>
>> command_timeout=60
>>
>> and the nrpe call itself is being done with a timeout of 60:
>>
>> command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H cabot -t 60 -c check_local_info
>>
>> with the check_local_info being my own shell script.
>>
>> So is there another place that the '30' timeout could possibly be 
>> coming from?
>>
>> Thanks much...
>>

> On "cabot" check the time out definition in the nrpe.cfg of the daemon , 
> that may be the reason for the 30 sec time out.
>
> Change it to the time you want and restart the NRPE .
> 
> Assaf

Cabot nrpe.cfg already has the command_timeout=60 line in it (and, yeah, I restarted nrpe).  That's what's driving me nuts.

Tim



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