Moved your question to zenoss-users, since it didn't really have anything to do with SuSE Linux.

Not sure which timeouts you're referring to, but you can configure several of the time-based settings under Collectors->localhost->Edit and increase the ping timeout if that's the cause.  You could also add delays to your alerts, to reduce false positives.  There are several solutions mentioned in the FAQ (docs/DOC-2445) that may prove useful.

Thanks,

Matt Ray

Zenoss Community Manager

Hello,

If you got to settings --> Users, then select a user and edit the alerting

rule, you can set a delay.  This will help with transient alarms.  I set a

300 second delay so that anything that goes down won't alert unless it is

still down after 5 minutes.

BobJ