Check by ssh timeout problems

[Aaron Segura]

We had a similar problem (not using SSH, though).  We use this script to
handle our notifications: 
http://sweetdeliah.com/nagios/notify/nagios_notify-0.5.tar.gz

Using the templates, we do something like (or, exactly like) this...

#IF NOTIFICATIONNUMBER=1
#IF SERVICEOUTPUT~=/Service Check Timed Out/
#DIE
#ENDIF
#ENDIF

You can pretty easily modify that to be:

#IF NOTIFICATIONNUMBER<3
#IF SERVICEOUTPUT~=/Plugin timed out while executing system call/
#DIE
#ENDIF
#ENDIF

Enjoy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Gargiullo [mailto:mgargiullo at pivotpointsecurity.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:55 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Check by ssh timeout problems

I have 2 remote machines that only I only have ssh access to.  I have
about 5 services I check the status of. Occasionally the machine takes >
70seconds to respond.  

I have the global timeout set to 120 sec, but I still get 5
notifications "CRITICAL - Plugin timed out while executing system call"
then maybe 10-20 minutes later 5 saying it's OK again.  

Is there a proper way to only send alerts on the 2nd or 3rd "CRITICAL -
Plugin timed out while executing system call" message (a true problem)
or better yet, increase the timeout for service checks?  I never get a
host message, just the services.

Unfortunately, I only have ssh access to the remote hosts.

Thanks,

Mike

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