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Hi there,

I am using a perl script as a service check and this check takes more then 60 seconds to run.
Is there a way to individualy extend the service check timeout, rather then to extend the default of 60 seconds for all service checks?

Cheers
Sjoerd

If you want to set up the plugin's timeout to a value greater than 60 sec, you will need to also increase the "default" timeout in the nagios.cfg file, i.e. and restart nagios:

Thanks for the response.
I can set this default timeout. However sometimes my perl script would take 2/3 minutes. If I set this default timeout then all service checks can potentially cause long timeouts.
Isn't there another way?

Setting up the "global" timeout to let's say 120 doesn't mean that ALL of your scripts will be running for 120 sec. You have a granular control as most of the plugins provide a timeout option. Individual scripts won't run longer than their timeout value.