Runway Job

We received an alert for an external check, however we're certain the alert was not legitimate. In the debug log output of serverscheck, we get entries indicating a runaway job:



# O1 Sat Sep 29 06:09:52 2007 1167864283EXTERNAL - Starting check

# O1 Sat Sep 29 06:09:52 2007 - 1167864283EXTERNAL - 3 Alert when: On each status change is true

# O1 Sat Sep 29 06:09:52 2007 - 1167864283EXTERNAL - 3 OK ne DOWN and DOWN ne "DOWN?" and On each status change eq "On each status change"

# O1 Sat Sep 29 06:09:52 2007 - Starting alerting procedure for 1167864283EXTERNAL with status: DOWN (see logging in alertslogs directory)

# M Sat Sep 29 06:09:52 2007 Runaway job: A1167864283EXTERNAL.0.037841796875

# O1 Sat Sep 29 06:09:52 2007 1167864283EXTERNAL - DOWN - Valid_String not returned by external check -



What does the runaway job indicate? Could it be causing a false positive?



We are using version 7.5.3.



Thanks for your help...

Runaway job means that it is taking longer than expected. The monitoring manager (starts with #M ) does not perform any monitoring and can not influence the status of a check returned.