Timeouts and check attempts

[Lance Albertson]

I have an interesting problem and I wondering if I have something messed
up in my config to cause this. Ok, here's the situation:

All the plugins for a certain host start timing out
(local/remote[nrpe]). This creates a 'CRITICAL' state. But the catch is,
Nagios only sees it as one attempt being CRITICAL while its been in this
state longer than the retry check should say (for more than 2-5hrs after
the first state change). The interesting thing is, I restart Nagios, and
the check attempts go to the max (for this 3/3), but after a few checks
it goes back to 1/3. This creates a problem where nagios never sends out
a notification.

Is this how Nagios is supposed to handle a check timeout, or do I have
somethign mis-configured?

Thanks,
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Lance Albertson	<ramereth at gentoo.org>
Gentoo Infrastructure
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