FW: Plugin time out

[Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)]

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users On Behalf Of Sean Thomas
Sent: 15 February 2007 10:34

> I'm fairly new to Nagios and in need of some assistance with the
following:

> How would I go about extending the plugin time for this to 5 min.
> There is a lot of traffic on our clients lines which makes the 10
second interval to short > for them to respond.

> Following is the mail output from Nagios

> ***** Nagios  *****
>
> Notification Type: PROBLEM
> Host: xxx.xxx.co.za
> State: DOWN
> Address: x.x.x.x
> Info: CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds
>
> Any help will be much appreciated

If you are using check_nrpe to run the plugin, the check_nrpe program
has option -t to specify a different timeout time.  Try using
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/call_nrpe -h for help output

Jonathan Wheeler
e-Science Centre
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

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