<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> 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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Is the server possibly busy at the same time??<br><br>Let us know what you find out.<br><br>Steve<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:30:55 -0500<br>From: akpgeek@gmail.com<br>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>Subject: [Nagios-users] CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds<br><br>Hi all -<div><br></div><div> I have been using nagios for a while to check whether some our web sites are up and running</div><div><br></div><div>following is the line from the commands.cfg</div><div><br></div><div> <b>command_line $USER1$/check_http -w 5 -c 10 -H our_dns_name -u /siteName -S -v</b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It was working fine. Starting this afternoon, it started giving Socket time out. Logs have no information. Can you please share your experiences ?</div> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div> <br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d<br>_______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </body> </html>