Nagios Support Forum

Hi Team,
Intermittently command check_oracle_health is throwing "Service check timed out after 60.01 seconds" error.

This could be happening because Oracle database is on high load and might be taking more than a minutes to respond to tablespace check query. I read in some forums and added "-t 300" to the command but we are still getting time outs in 1 minute.

- How to increase the timeout interval?
- How do we avoid getting alerts for timeout? We have a pooling cycle of 10 minutes and if issue persists for 10 minutes only than we need to receive alerts. But this case, alert comes in 1 minute and it's not a genuine alert too.

/usr/bin/env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64 $USER1$/check_oracle_health $ARG1$

Where ARG1 is
-t 300 --connect 'XXXXXXX' --username 'nagios' --password 'XXXXXX' --mode tablespace-usage --warning 80 --critical 90

I read in some forums and added "-t 300" to the command but we are still getting time outs in 1 minute.

You may increase the plugin's timeout, however there is a "global" option in the nagios main config (nagios.cfg) that needs to be increased as well. The "default" value of the service checks timeout is set to 60 seconds: You would need to increase this value, and restart nagios so that changes can take effect.

Thank you. I have updated the global configuration and restarted nagios.
Will monitor and update you how it goes.

Thanks,
Bhargava

Sure, let us know if you have any further questions.

That fixed the issue. Thanks a lot.

I am glad I could help!