Hi all, well I am running GroundWork open source and really happy with the layout, etc. and now comes the nagios things. My goal is to setup things neatly, organized and learn as I go rather than asking stupid q's along the way. So with that, the 1st task; I have 8 webservers all host numerous sites, a few host only select. So I have created some hostgroups, adding the servers that belong to each, and wonderfully it works. I can select a server, see the group, click the group, see the servers (did I mention I'm good) :) Anyway, I want to setup 2 seperate checks one for each website, then associate them with the groups, so for example; ws1 (site1, site2) ws2 (site1) ws3 (site1, site2) ws4 (site2) Pretty simple. So I copied the check_http command where I saw it used and have the following; command[check_http]=/usr/local/groundwork/nagios/libexec/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -I $HOSTADDRESS$ command[check_s1]=/usr/local/groundwork/nagios/libexec/check_http -H <a href="http://www.site1.com">www.site1.com</a> -I $HOSTADDRESS$ command[check_s2]=/usr/local/groundwork/nagios/libexec/check_http -H <a href="http://www.site2.com">www.site2.com</a> -I $HOSTADDRESS$ The services.cfg has the following (will only show 1 for space) define service { service_description check_s1 use generic-service hostgroup_name s1_WebServers check_command check_s1!3!5 } Now after the above setup and a restart, I have happy to see the check_s1 listed but it's showing critical with the following error; CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds At the command line check it does work; ./check_http -H <a href="http://www.site1.com">www.site1.com</a> -I 192.168.50.101 HTTP OK HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 14398 bytes in 0.090 seconds |time=0.089949s;;;0.000000 size=14398B;;;0 I am looking through where people are increasing the timeout, but the response time is not even a second, so there must be something else I am missing. So I am looking forward to learning more, welcome any ideas, suggestions, or anything else I should know about using nagios under groundwork. This is running under ubuntu-8.10 server, Program Version:3.0.6, let me know what else I can or need to provide on this.