service timeout

[Lars Stavholm]

Marc Powell wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Lars Stavholm
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:44 PM
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] service timeout
>>
> 
> 
>> Q: Is there any way one could define time out on one service
>>    rather than all services?
> 
> Standard plugins mostly support a -t switch to specify the timeout for
> the plugin. The nagios.cfg service check timeout is a catch-all for
> those that don't terminate themselves when they should. Ideally, each
> command definition would have a specific timeout for each plugin defined
> with -t and the nagios.cfg timeout would be the max possible value of
> your timeouts. In that scenario individual plugins would have unique
> timeout values and your max would catch any runaways. You could go
> further with that and actually pass the timeout value as a $ARGx$ macro
> to the command from your service definition allowing you very specific
> granularity in your timeout control.
> 
> Since the duration of the run-time for your check is so long, I agree
> that it probably makes more sense to either run it out of cron and have
> it submit a passive check result or have it update a file that you then
> parse as an active check in nagios.

Thanks for that. The plugin in question (check_rootkit) is a
simple shell without any timeout option. I'm going for the
passive check solution.

Thank you
/Lars


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