Changing the NRPE timeout

[Marc Powell]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Bo Lynch wrote:

> I am monitoring some boxes over a slow connection and need to up the
> CHECK_NRPE timeout from 10 sec to maybe 30. Where do I set this at.

There are several potential timeouts in play here --

- check_nrpe timeout. Adjusted by modifying the check_nrpe command{}  
definition --

$ ./check_nrpe --help

[snip]
Usage: check_nrpe -H <host> [-n] [-p <port>] [-t <timeout>] [-c  
<command>] [-a <arglist...>]

Options:
[snip]
  [timeout]  = Number of seconds before connection times out  
(default=10)


- nagios overall service plugin execution timeout. This should be  
higher than your highest plugin specific timeout --

$ grep timeout etc/nagios.cfg
service_check_timeout=60


- And the plugin that NRPE is executing on the remote host will have a  
default timeout value as well. Standard plugins support a -t parameter  
(like check_nrpe) but you can always run '/path/to/plugin --help' to  
see if it is a parameter and what it expects.

--
Marc


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