Is there a way to set an individual service check timeout?

[Jennifer Cranfill]

Marc Powell wrote:
> On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Jon Angliss wrote:
> 
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>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:05:39 -0500, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Jennifer Cranfill wrote:
>>>
>>>> The only setting for service check timeout that I see is the global
>>>> service_check_timeout setting. Is there a setting that can be
>>>> applied
>>>> per command or per service check?
>>> All standard plugins support a timeout parameter, typically '-t
>>> <seconds>' that you can pass in the command definition. Run '/path/
>>> to/
>>> plugin --help' to see if it's supported and usage. It could also be
>>> passed from a service definition as a $ARGx$ macro.
>> I think you missed the request.
> 
> I don't think I did but in any event, the answer is still the same.
> Use the timeout option for each plugin. Both facilities will return a
> CRITICAL state indicating that there was a  timeout error. Which
> program reported the error, the plugin or nagios, doesn't really seem
> pertinent.
> 
>  > From what I can tell, it cannot be customized per plugin.  However,
> if
>> you set it high enough to cover all the plugins, and then set sane
>> values for the -t option for the plugins you should be okay.
> 
> Correct, there is only one if-all-else-fails timeout for all services
> but when using timeout values per plugin, it should never get there
> unless something really bad went wrong with the plugin.

Thanks Jon and Marc.

I was looking for a way to extend the global timeout for specific 
service checks, but it does not seem to be possible. I guess I'll go 
with setting the global timeout to be large and then using -t for all 
services I want to timeout earlier (99% of them).

Thanks again!

--
Jennifer Cranfill


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