pnp error: *** CRITICAL Timeout after 5 Sec. ****

[Joerg Linge]

Michael W. Lucas schrieb:
> Hi,

Hi Michael,

> I've searched on this problem, and haven't found anyone else
> experiencing it in any mailing list archive or forum.

The best place to get support is the pnp4nagios-users Mailinglist or the 
Forums on www.nagios-portal.org

>  What could be
> causing these timeouts, and how badly are they harming my data?
 >
> Details:
> 
> I have PNP installed and almost working with NPCD on FreeBSD
> 7.0/amd64, with nagios 3.0.2.  Nagios gathers perfdata and puts it in
> the perfcache.  process_perfdata frequently runs, and puts data into
> RRDs.  The process_perfdata.pl debugging log shows all sorts of
> successful updates, but then I get an entry like this:

The current PNP Version is PNP-0.4.11.
Which Version do you use?

Also some more informations about you Nagios installtion will be useful.
Like number of Host/Service checks per minute.


> 2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] No Custom Template found for check_dcerpc (/usr/local/etc/pnp//check_commands/check_dcerpc.cfg) 
> 2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] RRD Datatype is GAUGE
> 2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] Template is check_dcerpc.php
> 2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] data2rrd called
> 2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] RRDs::update /var/spool/nagios/pnp/rrd/viper025.am.local/Windows_DCERPC.rrd 1223396130:0.002143
> 2008-10-07 12:15:39 [62022] *** CRITICAL Timeout after 5 Sec. ****
> 
> When this occurs a perfdata file remains, such as:
> 
> service-perfdata.1223396254-PID-88114

You can adjust the timeout in etc/pnp/process_perfdata.cfg

> This file is not deleted.  Once NPCD thinks it's done, it processes
> these files again renames it to:
> 
> service-perfdata.1223396194-PID-87765-PID-90732
> 
> If I let NPCD run, it eventually processes and removes all of these
> files.
> 
> If these errors cause occasional blank spots in my graphs, that's OK;
> I can live with that while I investigate the timeouts.  If they will
> cause obviously incorrect or misleading graphs, that's more serious
> and requires that I shut down user access to PNP until I debug it.
> (No data is better than wrong data!)

Thats changed in PNP-0.4.11

Regards Joerg


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