>I don't think "current check attempt #" is retained > >Since soft states are not considered 'real' errors yet, when a >nagios restart occurs it must count up from the beginning again.
This is the way I understand it as well. A few tests here seem to indicate that this is the case in 1.2, at least. The check attempts are used to count the number of criticals *over a specified period* so you wouldn't want these to be retained - the system doesn't know how long its been down, so it starts the soft count from zero again. Since you should have your max_checks and check_intervals set to something sensible, it should only be a few minutes before things are back to normal. If you are restarting nagios every hour or so, then you have a different problem... Steve ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv28&alloc_id845&op=click _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null