Marc Powell <marc <at> ena.com> writes: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > I'm running Nagios 2.3.1. > > > > I'm running into this scenario: When a host goes down I've noticed > that > > the Host checks aren't waiting for any period of time between the host > > alive checks. > > > > I have the host retries at 3 and you can see that it tried 3 times but > > there was no waiting in-between tries. > > > > Anyone have any ideas? > > That is expected and desired behavior. Host checks are done serially, > not in parallel fashion like service checks. While host checks are being > performed all other activities such as service checks and notifications > stop until the state of the host is definitely determined (i.e. in a > HARD state). It is therefore important that the host check completes as > quickly as possible so that nagios can move back into parallel operation > mode. > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html details > some of the benefits of this. > > -- > Marc >
Maybe I'm dense, but isn't Nagios doing the checks in parallel if it's running 3 host checks on the same host at exactly the same time? What is the point of setting a Host max_check_attempts if Nagios isn't going to wait in between checking? Not trying to be a pain, I just want to understand. I was thinking that if I set the max_check_attemps to 3 it should try the check 3 times (one at a time) before telling me the host is down. Josh _______________________________________________ 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
