Unexpected service alerts based on plugin timed out - Bug, WAD, or Administrator error?

[Nolan Martin]

I've seen this issue pop up several times in the archives, but without
any apparent resolution...  Perhaps someone can shed some light this
time.  

I receive on-going (unexpected and undesired) service alerts due to
timed out plugins.  This occurs for pretty much any service, including
the check_ping, the check_http and check_nwstat (for abends, etc.).

The problem is that the plugin timed out alerts do not seem to follow
the max_check_attempts for the service.  So, even if the previous ping
was okay, if the next ping check generates a time out, it immediately
generates a service alert (despite the fact that max_check_attempts is
set to 5.

Can someone tell me if this is working as designed, a bug, or (always
unlikely) administrator error?

I am currently running Nagios 1.0b3 on Red Hat Linux 7.3.  

Thanks.

Nolan




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