This topic provides more information about the time-out behavior you see in Jive when SharePoint cannot be reached. When Jive can't reach SharePoint, it activates a monitoring thread. Once this thread is activated, Jive will poll the connection for a designated interval using the sharepoint.monitor.check.delay and sharepoint.monitor.check.interval system properties until SharePoint becomes available once again.
When SharePoint cannot be reached, users will be able to access places that have been socialized, but SharePoint widgets and macros will not load and SharePoint documents with SharePoint permissions will not be visible, except to the Jive administrator. Once connection is re-established, users will once again see SharePoint documents and widgets.