Kyle Tucker <kylet <at> panix.com> writes: > > > > > What is the point of setting a Host max_check_attempts if Nagios isn't going to > > wait in between checking? > > I too wish I had more time between host checks and you've prompted me > to try something in my check_alive script. Would this snippet do the > trick? > > TIMEGAP=10 # number of seconds before host checks > > if [ $HOSTSTATE$ = "DOWN" -a $HOSTSTATETYPE$ = "SOFT" ] > then > sleep $TIMEGAP > fi > > exit 2 > > I would have used ... > > if [ $HOSTSTATE$ = "DOWN" -a $HOSTATTEMPT$ -lt $MAXHOSTATTEMPT$ ] > then > sleep $TIMEGAP > fi > > ... but oddly there seems to be no $MAXHOSTATTEMPT$ macro. >
OK so the simple solution would be to change my check-host-command to include a sleep 10 at the end. i.e.: $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 3 && sleep 10 You think that would work? 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
