Hmm... And why is UNKNOWN a hard state and not soft? I would say, unknown is like critical and I need OK to know if everything works allright in a network. So why should nagios wait for the next normal scheduled check if it is unknown if a service is OK?
Nicole Thomas Guyot-Sionnest schrieb: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17/02/09 03:56 AM, Nicole Hähnel wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have several service checks via snmp which are checked only every hour. >> This service checks return unknown if the host is down and nagios >> doesn't know this yet. >> If the host goes up the service state is still unknown in hard state and >> only one time checked instead of the max_check_attempts of 3. >> The problem is, it takes about one hour to the next service check or I >> have to reschedule the next check >> if I don't want to remain the service in unknown state. >> >> Is this the right behavior for unknown states? >> Why aren't unknown states treated as critical states? >> The recovery of unknown state takes too long. >> > > The recovery time is just the same as critical. the retry_interval is > used only during SOFT NON-OK states. > > You should most likely check more often. Most people run checks every 5 > minutes, if not 1 minutes. Hourly checks means that it can take over an > hour to detect a service failure. > > If you absolutely want that, you could use event-handlers to force > service checks upon host recovery, or configure adaptive monitoring to > that services gets checked more often during non-OK states. > > - -- > Thomas > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJmrOV6dZ+Kt5BchYRAnv+AJ9WImhMSaD6iV1QVQ9Yb19BtjybLQCg+wJv > 8FXQ2VGLurbNkGU2FifoTa0= > =bvYt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ 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
