CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds

[akp geek]

Thank you. Will check with admins. I checked the service check_ping for the
same host and it is working fine

Regards

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Giles Coochey <giles at coochey.net> wrote:

> On 02/02/2011 12:12, akp geek wrote:
>
>> Now I have increased the timeout to 60 seconds. Now I am getting
>>
>> node name or service name not known
>> HTTP CRITICAL - Unable to open TCP socket
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:49 PM, steve f <a31modela at hotmail.com <mailto:
>> a31modela at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Most plugins time out after 10 seconds of not being able to
>>    contact a service (FTP, HTTP, etc). If the plugins are timing out
>>    after a short period of time, increase the timeout value for the
>>    plugin using the appropriate command line argument for that
>>    plugin. Try using a -t 12.
>>
>>    I think that only the plugin timeout default value is 10 seconds,
>>    the other timeouts are higher.  Someone else smarter than me can
>>    verify that.
>>
>>    Is this check_http failing every time now or only occasionally ?
>> Try running the check to a different site and see if those fail as
>>    well.
>>
>>    Is the server possibly busy at the same time??
>>
>>    Let us know what you find out.
>>
>>    Steve
>>
>>
>>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>    Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:30:55 -0500
>>    From: akpgeek at gmail.com <mailto:akpgeek at gmail.com>
>>
>>    To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>    <mailto:nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>>
>>    Subject: [Nagios-users] CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds
>>
>>
>>    Hi all -
>>
>>               I have been using nagios for a while to check whether
>>    some our web sites are  up and running
>>
>>    following is the line from the commands.cfg
>>
>>    *command_line $USER1$/check_http -w 5 -c 10  -H our_dns_name -u
>>    /siteName -S -v*
>>
>>
>>    It was working fine. Starting this afternoon, it started giving
>>    Socket time out. Logs have no information. Can you please share
>>    your experiences ?
>>
>>
>>    Regards
>>
>>
>>  Have you tried speaking with the administrators of the web servers? I
> remember once I was running some web-server analytic on one of my webservers
> and I found lots of spurious connections from a particular host... I assumed
> it was a lame DoS attack and simply put in a iptables command to block any
> incoming traffic from that IP. All the requests were silly and every 30
> seconds or so.
> Soon after I got a call from our NOC asking me if I could take a look at
> the webserver as it seemed to be down... of course, they never told me that
> they were monitoring it for uptime... nor did they actually check the
> webserver on a different client system...  I guessed the company I was
> working for was actually more interested in seeing whether I was meeting a
> SLA rather than properly communicating their monitoring systems...
> But either way, if the web admin has blocked you then I imagine you'd get
> that error...
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
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