On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Israel Brewster wrote: > I need some clarification as to how exactly the host check determines > if a host is down. In the default configuration, the check-host-alive > command sends a single ping, which can be considered (obviously) > either ok, warning, or critical. The host then has a > max_check_attempts setting of three, which if I understand things > correctly means it will try this check twice more, in rapid > succession, before putting the host into a hard state. My question is > what is the logic if one of these three checks returns a different > state than the other two? Say, for example, the first ping never makes > it back, therefore returning a critical state, but the second and > third come back, giving OK states? is the host then considered up or > down? Thanks!
Any OK state will reset the retry counter, because it means the host is up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
