Tweaking Socket timeout

[Paul Dubuc]

Service and host check plugins are responsible for implementing their own 
timeouts, not Nagios. This socket timeout must be specific to the plugin you 
are using for the service. The timeouts in nagios.cfg are backstops that 
prevent "stuck" plugins from tying up Nagios resources.  You should look at 
the command or service definition in your other config files and/or the plugin 
itself to see where and how this timeout is defined.

Andre Tann wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> some of my services report a socket timeout after 5 seconds. How can I
> increase this value to 10 secs?
>
> # grep -i timeout /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg
> # TIMEOUT VALUES
> service_check_timeout=60
> host_check_timeout=30
> event_handler_timeout=30
> notification_timeout=30
> ocsp_timeout=10      # <- has been 5 before
> perfdata_timeout=10  # <- has been 5 before
>
>
> In the last two lines there was a value of 5, and I changed it to 10.
> This didn't help, which surprises me not much, as the problem isn't ocsp
> or perfdata related.
>
> In my understanding the timeout should be 60 secs as in
> service_check_timeout, but it is 5 secs as noted before.
>
> Where do these 5 secs come from?
>


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