Pinging time

[wiproltdwiv]

Dear Team, pls confirm the maximum time that can be set for pinging one host in Nagios.

regards

[scottwilkerson]

Do you mean using the check_ping plugin with the -t flag? I don't believe there is a limit, you can add the -t flag and specify however many seconds you want.

One thing to note, if you have many machines that aren't responding, it will not return a response to Nagios until the number of seconds set by -t

This could cause high load if you have a very high time.

Additionally, you cannot exceed the time in seconds you have specified in nagios.cfg for these values

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host_check_timeout=30
service_check_timeout=60