check_by_ssh timeouts / how to work around?

[James]

On Mon, October 6, 2008 11:37 am, Charlie Reddington wrote:
> I should also  mention that I also have these timeouts in place...
>
>
> service_check_timeout=90 host_check_timeout=30 event_handler_timeout=30
> notification_timeout=60 ocsp_timeout=5 perfdata_timeout=5
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Charlie Reddington wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have a couple machines that spit out a warning similar to this:
>>
>>
>> WARNING - check_by_ssh: Remote command '/home/nagios/nagios-plugs/
>> check_disk' returned status 1
>>
>> I believe this to be caused by the check itself is timing out. As
>> when I try to login it will sometimes take up to a minute or two just to
>> get a prompt.
>>
>> The server will respond to ping, so I'm generally not totally
>> concerned about it. And the checks usually clear up in 5 minutes or soon
>> as the server gets whatever IO hog out of the way.
>>
>> Is anyone else experiencing this, and if so how do you cope / deal
>> with this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Charlie

The timeouts in nagios.cfg are ow long the nagios process waits before
aborting a check.
There are usually check specific timeouts that you can add to the command
definition.
Run the check_* command manually and see what the syntax is (sometimes '-t
xx').


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