Service and Host Result Freshness Checks documentation clarification request

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

[Originally sent on Sun 11; resending from my PC as it was caught as
spam]

If the service is passive the only way I see is to set the freshnes
threshold to the retry time value you want. This means that the results
have to come in faster than the freshness threshold.

Another way is to use event handlers to modify service properties on the
fly. Nagios 3 gives some aditional commands to change service properties
at run-time, but you should be able to do it with what Nagios 2.x
provides (ex. Setting active checks on a passive service to make the
command run at the normal interval instead of freshness threshold)

Thomas
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Ahmon Dancy" <dancy at switchmanagement.com>
To: "Nagios Developers List" <nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: 11-03-07 12:57
Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Service and Host Result Freshness Checks
documentation clarification request

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> On 10/03/07 03:02 PM, Ahmon Dancy wrote:
>> I would like the answer to the following question to be answered in
the 
>> documentation:
>>
>> Once a service is determined to be stale and the freshness check
command 
>> executes, how often does it reexecute (if at all)?  Does it depend on

>> the retry_check_interval?
> 
> There is no different command for freshness. When the service
> check_command runs the service is refreshed and the command will
> re-execute only once the service freshness exceed the freshness
> threshold again.
> 
> Isn't that obvious?

I have a situation where it would be useful to have the check_command 
reexecute if a service remains stale for an extended period of time. 
The retry_check_interval seems like a feasible place to control such 
behavior.


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