Difference between the timeout service and orphaned service

[Yu Watanabe]

Thank you for the reply.

Could I ask you a further question?

In the manual the orphaned services are defined as 

"This option allows you to enable or disable checks for orphaned service checks. Orphaned service
checks are checks which ahve been executed and have been removed from the event queue, but have
not had any results reported in a long time. Since no results have come back in for the service, it is not
rescheduled in the event queue. This can cause service checks to stop being executed. Normally it is
very rare for this to happen - it might happen if an external user or process killed off the process that
was being used to execute a service check. "

To be more specific, is this a kind of status that in the memory , nagios is 
acknowledging that this service is still checking but actually the plugin
did not return anything although the process is already dead?

Thank you for reading.

Yu Watanabe

Yueh-Hung Liu さんは書きました:
>they are not totally related.
>"service check timeout" tells when Nagios should kill a check process ACTIVELY.
>"orphaned service check" would let Nagios find out whether a check
>process is killed BY OTHERS.
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>On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Yu Watanabe <yu.watanabe at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I'd like to ask a question about the service check timeout and the orphaned service check.
>> I am looking at the manual but couldn't understand the major difference.
>>
>> Could someone give me an advice with the point of these two options?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Yu Watanabe
>>
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