service timeout

[Patrick Morris]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Lars Stavholm wrote:

> I get "(Service Check Timed Out)" for one of my service checks
> (check_rootkit [rkhunter]), which could take a few minutes at
> times, so I've scheduled it to run every 20 minutes. Now, when
> getting the timeout, I went looking in the doco for some time
> out option and I couldn't find one. Well, I found the global
> configuration option "service_check_timeout", but that doesn't
> really cut it for me. The check_rootkit plugin could take several
> minutes, and I wouldn't want to adjust the timeout for all
> services just because of the check_rootkit.
> 
> Q: Is there any way one could define time out on one service
>    rather than all services?

service_check_timeout is pretty much absolute.  If you don't want to
change it (and you probably shouldn't) you may want to consider making
this a passive check, which generally makes more sense for checks that
are going to take a long time to complete.

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