Service Check Timed Out

[Alexandru Ionica]

Hello,
this is the error i see in the cgi web interface.
in the error log i see stuff like:


SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
noc;host-aaa;FPING;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;(Service Check Timed Out)

SERVICE ALERT: host-bbb;FPING;CRITICAL;HARD;3;(Service Check Timed Out)

SERVICE ALERT: host-ccc;FPING;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;(Service Check Timed Out)


The FPING service is a perl script i wrote wich does a fping, and a
snmpwalk. In the worst case scenario this should take are 30 seconds to run.

I've set up service_check_timeout=90 in the main (nagios.cfg) config file.
The machine is under medium to heavy load, but i can't understand why
it's getting a timeout, as 90 seconds seem more than enough for any of
the scripts to run.
Is there any possibility that this is generated by the check-host-alive
plugin and it escalates ? or something like that ... ?

The nagios configuration is pretty simple, some of the more important
things are:
====================================
inter_check_delay_method=s
service_interleave_factor=s
max_concurrent_checks=0
service_reaper_frequency=10
service_check_timeout=90
host_check_timeout=90
event_handler_timeout=30
notification_timeout=30
ocsp_timeout=15
perfdata_timeout=15
check_for_orphaned_services=0
check_service_freshness=1
freshness_check_interval=60
==================================

The service template is:

==================================
define service{
        name                            generic-ping2
        active_checks_enabled           1
        passive_checks_enabled          1
        parallelize_check               1
        obsess_over_service             1
        check_freshness                 0
        notifications_enabled           1
        event_handler_enabled           1
        flap_detection_enabled          1
        process_perf_data               1
        retain_status_information       1
        retain_nonstatus_information    1
        service_description             FPING
        is_volatile                     0
        check_period                    24x7
        max_check_attempts              3
        normal_check_interval           5
        retry_check_interval            1
        contact_groups                  noc-acm
        notification_interval           1800
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_options            c,r
        register                        0
        }
====================================

any ideeas ?


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