<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Hi</DIV><DIV>I'm a relatively inexperienced Nagios user.</DIV><DIV>I've got Nagios checking some Hosts and Services on our Mac and PC Servers.а</DIV><DIV>However I have a small problem/need which I hope the list can shed some light on.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Nagios has the facility to monitor a URL and send an alert if the URL</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">returns a certain response code (e.g. 500). Obviously this requires Nagios</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to send a request to the server, wait for a response, and then report a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">failure based on the response code. This works fine for sites that are</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">either running (success response code) or not running (fail response code).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">However, what we would like to do is to be able to send alerts for sites</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that are running but are running very slowly. In this case it would take a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">long time for Nagios to receive a response from the server. Is it possible</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to configure Nagios to send an alert if it does not get any response from a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">URL within a given timeframe (e.g. 45 seconds, 1 minute etc)? I imagine this</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">would require some kind of "request timeout" setting.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>How would I go about setting this up?</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Kind regards</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Anthony</DIV><DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦЦ</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anthony J. 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