odd timeout behaviour

[Julian_Grunnell at tdwh.co.uk]

Hi - wonder if someone can help with an issue around plugin timeouts I'm 
having, running Nagios 3.4.3 on Suse. Everyday some of my ConSol Labs 
check_logfiles checks being to timeout. They run every 4mins and normally 
complete in a few seconds at most. The screenshot below shows one such 
example that has been timing out for over two hours now:



The strange behaviour is that if I carry out any of the following 3 things 
the check runs fine and the CRITICAL state goes to GREEN, or I can simply 
run the check without any kind of timeout - as mentioed this check should 
never take 10 secs to complete. In fact changing the timeout value to 45 
secs makes absolutely no difference at all. Restarting Nagios makes no 
difference.

1) In Nagios, "Re-schedule the next check of this service" - the check 
runs just fine.

2) Run the check from the command line on the Nagios server - the check 
runs just fine.

3) Run the check from the command line on the target server - the check 
runs just fine.


Has anyone come across this kind of behaviour before, or any ideas what 
might be wrong?

Thanks - Julian.

Julian Grunnell | Unix Analyst, Infrastructure | TD Direct Investing
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