Hi All, I am using nrpe and check_dirsize plugin to monitor the home directory sizes of quite a few users. I receive the error "CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds" during the checking of quite a few directories. This error isn't observed at each check or for each directory. It is observed very randomly (say every 3rd check of a directory on an average). The error is observed for the larger directories most of the times. So assuming that the check_dirsize plugin is taking longer to complete the check, I have set the "command_timeout" value to 240 from the original default of 60 in the nrpe.cfg of the remote host. Also changed the service_check_timeout value to 240 in the nagios.cfg on the nagios host. But I still get the error messages quite a few times (not always). What could be the resolution for this error? Secondly, is there any way to always schedule these checks at a specific time. I would like to schedule them after work hours, because I suspect that the access to the host on which these directories are located, becomes slow when these checks are running. Thanks in advance. Yogesh