1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/check_snmp.c b/plugins/check_snmp.c
index da9638c4..afc568b2 100644
--- a/plugins/check_snmp.c
+++ b/plugins/check_snmp.c
@@ -576,6 +576,9 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
                         len = sizeof(perfstr)-strlen(perfstr)-1;
                         strncat(perfstr, show, len>ptr-show ? ptr-show : len);
 
+                        if (type)
+                                strncat(perfstr, type, sizeof(perfstr)-strlen(perfstr)-1);
+
                         if (warning_thresholds) {
                                 strncat(perfstr, ";", sizeof(perfstr)-strlen(perfstr)-1);
                                 strncat(perfstr, warning_thresholds, sizeof(perfstr)-strlen(perfstr)-1);
@@ -588,8 +591,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
                                 strncat(perfstr, critical_thresholds, sizeof(perfstr)-strlen(perfstr)-1);
                         }
 
-                        if (type)
-                                strncat(perfstr, type, sizeof(perfstr)-strlen(perfstr)-1);
                         strncat(perfstr, " ", sizeof(perfstr)-strlen(perfstr)-1);
                 }
         }
@@ -1207,8 +1208,9 @@ print_help (void)
         printf ("    %s\n", _("Separates output on multiple OID requests"));
 
         printf (UT_CONN_TIMEOUT, DEFAULT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT);
+        printf ("    %s\n", _("NOTE the final timeout value is calculated using this formula: timeout_interval * retries + 5"));
         printf (" %s\n", "-e, --retries=INTEGER");
-        printf ("    %s\n", _("Number of retries to be used in the requests"));
+        printf ("    %s%i\n", _("Number of retries to be used in the requests, default: "), DEFAULT_RETRIES);
 
         printf (" %s\n", "-O, --perf-oids");
         printf ("    %s\n", _("Label performance data with OIDs instead of --label's"));