Query on check_http timeout option

[Daniel Lockard]

I believe it is the time the check_http took to connect, and download
the page.
Is the total time when you manually connect using curl greater than 10 seconds?


Daniel H Lockard



On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Sharad Ganapathy <sharadgana at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to understand the timeout option in check_http. From the help option,
> it states :
> -t, --timeout=INTEGER
>     Seconds before connection times out (default: 10)
> I monitor a webservice to check for connectivity and also pass some
> parameters to get some content back. Usually the download transfer takes
> around 20 seconds and occasionally it takes well over a minute or two. I
> have configured my check in this fashion.
> $ROOT/libexec/nagios/check_http -u 'some URL' -I API Hostname  -t 10 -c 20
> -p 4080 -A 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; pagechecks
> mon)'
> I am seeing the check error out with the message 'Socket timeout after 10
> seconds' quite often.
> When I manually connect ( telnet/curl) the URL the connection time is well
> below 10 seconds.
> Is the timeout parameter used to check the time it takes to establish a TCP
> connection or to govern the time the check  took  to complete ?
>
> Thanks
> Sharad
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