[PATCH] add service_check_timeout_state configuration variable

[C. Bensend]

> This patch adds a variable called 'service_check_timeout_state' which
> allows the admin to define the state that is returned when a service check
> times out.
>
> I look after a handful of nagios installations and the #1 complaint is of
> 'false alarms', which typically result from the machine that nagios is
> running on getting bogged down by some unrelated process (backups, etc.,
> nagios doesn't usually get its own machine in a small business) and thus a
> 'critical' state is thrown, and too often everybody gets paged in the
> middle of the night (we page on critical).

I cannot speak to the technical merit of the patch (I can't code my
way out of a web paper sack), but I really like the concept - this
is indeed an annoyance, and it would be wonderful to be able to tell
Nagios what to do about the timeouts.

Oh, how I would love to see this accepted and committed!

Benny


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