Issue with SNMP monitoring on the coreswitches

[nvnbs (v n bhavanishankar N)]

Hi All,

We are monitoring couple of core switches from checkmk the slave is located in singapore and the switch is in India getting this error:

CRIT - [snmp] keepalive timed outCRIT, Got no information from host, execution time 60.0 sec
Is there any way we can fix this when i restart the OMD we can see the services in undecided state which are monitored but when i do a quick search i dont see anything on this

[ChristianM (Christian Michaelski)]

Hi,
if you use the CEEof Check MK, you can increase the service check timeout for collecting the data.
Regards, Christian

[mike1098 (Michael FRANK)]

See my post here:

Check_MK - SNMP Check Timeout

Hello, What are you trying to do is just take a pain reliever instead of fixing the issue. If your SNMP check runs in to timeout your monitoring is not proper working. The root cause could be several issues. If its a remote host it could be due to slow network. This also highly depends on the amount of data to be sent. It could also due to a slow SNMP agent and we also had issues with SNMP agents dont answer if requests comes too quickly. My recommendations: Setup a rule “Timing settings …

[nvnbs (v n bhavanishankar N)]

are you taking about this rule Timing settings for SNMP access if not could you please let me know how i can set it up