Is there a way to delay UP;HARD checks?

[Josh Van As]

MY problem is similar to yours.  I know that it takes certain services
longer than 1 minute (my normal check interval) to start after the box
would reply to a ping (while coming back up from a reboot).  

I really just want to be able to control HARD UP notifications be
forcing a retry on HARD Ups.  Just like you currently set a retry
interval for SOFT DOWNs before they become HARD, I desire a retry
interval before SOFT Ups before they become HARD.

Just a thought.
-Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas E. Warner [mailto:dwarner at ctinetworks.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:15 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re: Re: Is there a way to delay UP;HARD
checks?

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On Friday 19 September 2003 19:25, Sto Rage(r) wrote:
> Well, isn't that the point of your monitoring? Each host has a purpose
> (service) on your network, so if its not serving that purpose (service
not
> running) then shouldn't you consider that host as being down?
> E.g. I have a Win2k Fax Server, if its not running the fax service I
> consider the host as down, even if I am able to ping it, and other
services
> are running.
> So in your case, if its not critical for you if a card is down, then
why
> monitor that card in the first place?

No, its not the same.  If I have more than enough modem cards (failover)
to 
handle calls, the NAS still works despite one being down.  The fact that
the 
one card is down is still bad, but not so bad that the function of the
box is 
nullified.
People run multiple services on their boxes; sometimes these services
fail to 
start or stop working, that's why we check them.  Sometimes these
services 
also take 7 minutes to boot, and I don't want to hear that they're still
down 
until they've been down for 15 minutes.
Also, this can't be the same as setting a adjusting max_check_attempts
and 
*_check_interval, because if it goes down after the box has been running

correctly for awhile, I care immediately; only if the box has JUST come
out 
of a DOWN state do I care that it's taking so long for the service to
come 
up.

- -Doug

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Douglas E. Warner    <dwarner at ctinetworks.com>     Network Engineer
CTI/PAdotNET         http://ctinetworks.com        +1 717 975 9000
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