Interstitial reply: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Matsushita, Nobuo <[email protected]> wrote: > HI, > > > > I am using Nagios 3.2. When I checked the web documentation : > > > >>> Unless you've changed the interval_length directive from the default >>> value of 60, this number will mean minutes
You don't state what part of the documentation you were reading, but I strongly suspect you were reading about check_interval, retry_interval, or notification interval. Those are measured in "intervals", the length of which is set by the interval_length variable in the configuration. The interval length is in seconds and is set in the config file near where you quoted below. > > > > But when I checked the nagios.cfg file: > > > > # INTERVAL LENGTH > > # This is the seconds per unit interval as used in the > # host/contact/service configuration files. Setting this to 60 means > # that each interval is one minute long (60 seconds). > Here you can set the interval length.... > > > So the time interval unit is in Minutes or Seconds????? So, if you have interval_length = 60, then each interval is 60 seconds, if you set interval_length=5, then each interval is 5 seconds. The default is to have a 1 minute (60 second) interval, so a service with check_interval=5 will be checked every 5 minutes. Illustrative Example: You want to run some checks every 15 seconds, some every 40 and the rest every 5 minutes. You need to set interval_length=5 (global setting), then on the 15 second checks, check_interval=3; on the 40 second ones, check_interval=8; and on the rest, check_interval=60. Note that those numbers were used due to 5 seconds being the lowest common denominator. I suspect that using the longest possible interval will be more efficient for scheduling, and make no claims as to what will happen if a new interval begins before all checks executing in the prior interval are completed. > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Nobuo > I hope I was a help. --Rick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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
