What is the timout value for an External Script?

[noxis]

Hi There!

As topic really, I need to run some scripts that could take up to 2minutes to complete and return results to Zabbix.

Thanks for your help!

[Tenzer]

You will probably have to look through the source code. It doesn't seem like it's mentioned in the manual.

However, I would recommend you to set up a cronjob to execute the program/script instead, and then dump the output to a file which Zabbix reads. 2 minutes sounds like awful lot in this matter.
Remember that a Zabbix process is taken up during the duration of the program/script, so you may have to increase the amount of processes it spawns.

[noxis]

Ah I have answered my own question. The Timeout option in the zabbix_server.conf controls this timeout too. So a maximum of 30 seconds.

I have discovered that Active checks however seem to have a far longer timeout (not found the maximum yet) but I have managed to successfully pick up this data:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 60
echo "60 seconds successfully executed"

Edit: 300 completed just fine as well!