managing latency-induced host down alerts

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:15:54AM -0500, Marc Powell wrote:
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> 
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> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Michael W. Lucas
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:07 AM
> > To: Marc Powell
> > Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] managing latency-induced host down alerts
> 
> > My understanding was that Nagios terminated service checks after 10
> > seconds, no matter how long the plugin took to complete?
> 
> Only because that's the default setting.
>  
> > I have my plugins set to 10 seconds, but when I increase them beyond
> > 10 seconds Nagios still reports the maximum time for any check is 10
> > seconds.
> 
> Sounds like you didn't adjust the master service_check_timeout
> parameter.

That would be because I didn't know about it.  :-)

Thanks, I'm sure the problem is solved now.

==ml

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