CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds

[akp geek]

Now I have increased the timeout to 60 seconds. Now I am getting

node name or service name not known
HTTP CRITICAL - Unable to open TCP socket

Thanks for the suggestions

Regards


On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:49 PM, steve f <a31modela at hotmail.com> wrote:

>   Most plugins time out after 10 seconds of not being able to contact a
> service (FTP, HTTP, etc). If the plugins are timing out after a short period
> of time, increase the timeout value for the plugin using the appropriate
> command line argument for that plugin. Try using a -t 12.
>
> I think that only the plugin timeout default value is 10 seconds, the other
> timeouts are higher.  Someone else smarter than me can verify that.
>
> Is this check_http failing every time now or only occasionally ?  Try
> running the check to a different site and see if those fail as well.
>
> Is the server possibly busy at the same time??
>
> Let us know what you find out.
>
> Steve
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:30:55 -0500
> From: akpgeek at gmail.com
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds
>
>
> Hi all -
>
>            I have been using nagios for a while to check whether some our
> web sites are  up and running
>
> following is the line from the commands.cfg
>
> *command_line $USER1$/check_http -w 5 -c 10  -H our_dns_name -u /siteName
> -S -v*
>
>
> It was working fine. Starting this afternoon, it started giving Socket time
> out. Logs have no information. Can you please share your experiences ?
>
>
> Regards
>
>
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