Re: [Nagios-users] Host retry interval

2006-05-23 Thread Kyle Tucker
for that service. Ergo, if you set your service checks max to 15, after 15 minutes (assuming your delay is 60 seconds) your service will hit a HARD CRITICAL, and host checks will fire. That's not correct, host checks are performed as soon as a service check returns some non-OK

[Nagios-users] Host retry interval

2006-05-22 Thread Kyle Tucker
Hi, I have many hosts that are constantly giving me DOWN/UP state as they are unreachable for certain periods. In an attempt to give the system more time to become available, I increased the max_check_attempts from 2 to 5. At 2 the interval between retry attempts was 10 seconds. Now at 5,

Re: [Nagios-users] Host retry interval

2006-05-22 Thread Eli Stair
I'd suggest NOT taking this action at the host level; reason being that all service checks are halted for the duration of this non-parallelized action... You want to avoid doing a host check until absolutely necessary. Suggest increasing the max_check_attempts on the SERVICE to a larger number,

Re: [Nagios-users] Host retry interval

2006-05-22 Thread Kyle Tucker
Thanks Eli, According to the docs, Nagios checks the status of a host is when a service check results in a non-OK status.. Is that when it reaches a HARD state after all iterations of max_check_attempts are done or as soon as it goes to non-OK (SOFT) state? If the latter, which seems to be

Re: [Nagios-users] Host retry interval

2006-05-22 Thread Holger Weiss
* Kyle Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-22 14:45]: I have many hosts that are constantly giving me DOWN/UP state as they are unreachable for certain periods. In an attempt to give the system more time to become available, I increased the max_check_attempts from 2 to 5. At 2 the interval

Re: [Nagios-users] Host retry interval

2006-05-22 Thread Joerg Linge
Am Montag 22 Mai 2006 22:44 schrieb Holger Weiss: * Eli Stair [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-22 12:49]: for that service. Ergo, if you set your service checks max to 15, after 15 minutes (assuming your delay is 60 seconds) your service will hit a HARD CRITICAL, and host checks will fire.