check_openmanage: timeout vs. SNMP timeout

[Justin T Pryzby]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 06:35:35PM +0000, Andrew Daugherity wrote:
> Regarding your fix:
> The timeout option does appear to get passed to SNMP, however the
> actual timeout is twice what is specified.  E.g. --snmp=timeout=1,
> get SNMP critical message after 2 seconds; --snmp-timeout=14, SNMP
> critical at 28 seconds; --snmp-timeout=15 or higher, get UNKNOWN:
> PLUGIN TIMEOUT message at 30 seconds.  (I used a host without snmpd
> running for the timeout tests.)  I can't see anything obviously
> wrong with your code, but it behaves this way both on both SLES 11
> SP1 (Perl 5.10, net-snmp 5.4.2.1, Net::SNMP 6.0.1) and OS X 10.8
> (Perl 5.12.4, net-snmp 5.6, Net::SNMP 6.1 [from CPAN]).

That may be explained if the SNMP client has --retries=2.

Justin

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