Socket timeout

[matisse]

Hello, i have general question.
I should to check a lot of servers and services. But sometimes i got error "Socket timeout" only for 1 minute, after that status change to OK. It is affect http check, ntp check and etc. Usually i got socket timeout twice a day. My commands use the timeout key "-t 8:1"
Ports are open, tcpdump did not show errors. To increase timeout is not good idea as i think. What the problem with timeout can be?
Thank you.

[benjaminsmith]

Hi @matisse,

I think this is most likely the result of network issues; it's not uncommon to increase timeout settings for checks.

For example:

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check_http -H <ip address>  -t  60

Increasing the Nagios Global Timeout
Edit the Nagios config file,/usr/local/nagios/etc, the two directives to change are:

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host_check_timeout=60
service_check_timeout=60

Save changes and re-start core.

Let us know if that resolves the issue for you.