pnp error: *** CRITICAL Timeout after 5 Sec. ****

[Michael W. Lucas]

Hi,

I've searched on this problem, and haven't found anyone else
experiencing it in any mailing list archive or forum.  What could be
causing these timeouts, and how badly are they harming my data?

Details:

I have PNP installed and almost working with NPCD on FreeBSD
7.0/amd64, with nagios 3.0.2.  Nagios gathers perfdata and puts it in
the perfcache.  process_perfdata frequently runs, and puts data into
RRDs.  The process_perfdata.pl debugging log shows all sorts of
successful updates, but then I get an entry like this:

2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] No Custom Template found for check_dcerpc (/usr/local/etc/pnp//check_commands/check_dcerpc.cfg) 
2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] RRD Datatype is GAUGE
2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] Template is check_dcerpc.php
2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] data2rrd called
2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] RRDs::update /var/spool/nagios/pnp/rrd/viper025.am.local/Windows_DCERPC.rrd 1223396130:0.002143
2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] *** CRITICAL Timeout after 5 Sec. ****

When this occurs a perfdata file remains, such as:

service-perfdata.1223396254-PID-88114

This file is not deleted.  Once NPCD thinks it's done, it processes
these files again renames it to:

service-perfdata.1223396194-PID-87765-PID-90732

If I let NPCD run, it eventually processes and removes all of these
files.

If these errors cause occasional blank spots in my graphs, that's OK;
I can live with that while I investigate the timeouts.  If they will
cause obviously incorrect or misleading graphs, that's more serious
and requires that I shut down user access to PNP until I debug it.
(No data is better than wrong data!)

Any thoughts, folks?

Thanks,
==ml

-- 
Michael W. Lucas 	mwlucas at BlackHelicopters.org, mwlucas at FreeBSD.org
		http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of
  the pessimists." -- Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher

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