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Hi Sean,<br>
<br>
If it's a standard plugin (from nagios-plugins), you can normally use
the "-t" option in your check command definition to set the timeout to
300 seconds (i.e. 5 minutes.)<br>
E.g. "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H [IP address] -w 1000,20%
-c 2000,50% -t 300"<br>
<br>
Andy.<br>
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Sean Thomas wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi guys</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Im fairly new to Nagios and in need
of some assistence with the following:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">How would I go about extending the
plugin time for this to 5 min.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">There is a lot of traffic on our
clients lines which makes the 10 second interval to short for them to
respond.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Following is the mail output from
Nagios</font></div>
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<div>***** Nagios *****<br>
<br>
Notification Type: PROBLEM<br>
Host: xxx.xxx.co.za<br>
State: DOWN<br>
Address: x.x.x.x<br>
Info: CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Any help will be much appreciated</font></div>
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