[osiris] Osiris timeout connecting to agents

[Dave]

Hari Sekhon wrote:
> Hi,
>    I am having the osiris management console timeout when connecting to 
> some servers, mainly for those in other sites where the latency is 
> higher. Is there a way I can increase the timeout, I suspect that I need 
> to increase the socket timeout value, but I see no mention of this in 
> the Osiris Handbook.
> 
> I get a notification for each timeout, I don't want to disable 
> notifications, otherwise technically it could always fail to scan after 
> a compromise or something and you'd never get another notification so 
> you'd never know. I want to get notified, but I was to fix the problem 
> by making it less likely to time out.
> 
> Does anyone know if and how I can increase the timeout threshold to make 
> the osiris scheduled scans more resilient to network latency or slowness?

The default timeout for network communications in osiris is set to 10
seconds.  Instead of pushing data across disparate sites, it might be
wiser to set up MD's in each localized network.

Regardless, if you want to bump that timeout value up, you should be
able to do so by editing the DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS definition
in src/libosiris/socketapi.c and recompiling.

-dave