Notification blackout ignored (repost)

[Martin, Jeremy]

(RedHat 9, Nagios 1.1, Nagios-plugins 1.3.1

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin, Jeremy 
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:09 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Notification blackout ignored

From: Andreas Koch [mailto:a.koch at eurodata.de] 
> which you do, are a little too exaggerated.
> The better option are:
> max_check_attempts              5
> retry_check_interval            1
> this causes when the nagios server notice that the Service is down he
> check the Service 5 (max_check_attempts) times all 1 minute.
> thus, if the service 5 minutes long down is, only one informs.
> When the Service with the 3 check again ok is, is not informed.

Hi,

I am already trying to use max_check_attempts 5 and retry_check_interval
1 for these checks. Unfortunately it is still sending us warnings/pages
every night despite these settings. In fact on some I am even trying
max_check_attempts 10 but it's still not working. 

It seems when it gets a "connection refused by host" Nagios ignores
retry_check_interval and keeps retrying 5 or 10 times in the same
second. Is there any way to change this behavior? Here is an example
from the event log:

[01-13-2004 04:46:07] HOST NOTIFICATION:
Admin;www.whatever.com;DOWN;host-notify-by-email;Connection refused by
host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST NOTIFICATION:
Admin;www.whatever.com;DOWN;host-notify-by-epager;Connection refused by
host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST ALERT:
www.whatever.com;DOWN;HARD;10;Connection refused by host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST ALERT:
www.whatever.com;DOWN;SOFT;9;Connection refused by host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST ALERT:
www.whatever.com;DOWN;SOFT;8;Connection refused by host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST ALERT:
www.whatever.com;DOWN;SOFT;7;Connection refused by host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST ALERT:
www.whatever.com;DOWN;SOFT;6;Connection refused by host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST ALERT:
www.whatever.com;DOWN;SOFT;5;Connection refused by host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST ALERT:
www.whatever.com;DOWN;SOFT;4;Connection refused by host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST ALERT:
www.whatever.com;DOWN;SOFT;3;Connection refused by host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST ALERT:
www.whatever.com;DOWN;SOFT;2;Connection refused by host
[01-13-2004 04:46:06] HOST ALERT:
www.whatever.com;DOWN;SOFT;1;Connection refused by host

Thanks, and best wishes,
Jeremy




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