Nagios Query – Request Timeout?

[Anthony Foxcroft]

Hi
I'm a relatively inexperienced Nagios user.
I've got Nagios checking some Hosts and Services on our Mac and PC  
Servers.
However I have a small problem/need which I hope the list can shed  
some light on.

Nagios has the facility to monitor a URL and send an alert if the URL
returns a certain response code (e.g. 500). Obviously this requires  
Nagios
to send a request to the server, wait for a response, and then report a
failure based on the response code. This works fine for sites that are
either running (success response code) or not running (fail response  
code).
However, what we would like to do is to be able to send alerts for sites
that are running but are running very slowly. In this case it would  
take a
long time for Nagios to receive a response from the server. Is it  
possible
to configure Nagios to send an alert if it does not get any response  
from a
URL within a given timeframe (e.g. 45 seconds, 1 minute etc)? I  
imagine this
would require some kind of "request timeout" setting.

How would I go about setting this up?


Kind regards

Anthony


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