Socket Timeouts

[neworderfac33]

Good afternoon,
I'm currently receiving email alerts for various services that relate to socket timeouts.

Code: Select all

Notification Type: PROBLEM

Service: Win_Drive_Space_E
Host: 
Address: 
State: CRITICAL

Date/Time: Tue Dec 12 21:36:44 GMT 2017

Additional Info:

CRITICAL - Socket timeout

I believe that I can add a -t parameter to my check_nt, check_tcp and check_nrpe service definitions - OR - I can alter the TIMEOUT value in nsslient++.ini
My question is - if, for example, I added -t30 onto my service definitions, but set TIMEOUT = 60 in nsclient++.ini, which setting would be used?
Thanks in advance
Pete

[dwhitfield]

The lowest one, 30, in this case.

[neworderfac33]

Thanks for your reply! So that means then that if I want to increase the value to 120, I'm going to have to do it in NSClient++.ini on all my 1014 remote hosts and make sure that there are no -t values defined in my services?
Pete

[dwhitfield]

Actually, the -t just refers to the connection attempt, and the timeout in the nsclient.ini refers to execution, but I am pretty sure the execution time includes the connection time (I'm not 100% sure of this though).

I've seen the -t take priority, which is why I answered the way I did, but it's actually more complicated than that.