Service checks and retry check interval

[Jason Martin]

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By any chance is the service set to be volatile? That might account for 
the behavior you are seeing.

- -Jason Martin


On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Tom 
Valdes wrote:

> I currently have my normal_check_interval set to 5 minutes
> 
> If a service check is missed, I'd like it to retry 5 times before
> sending a notification and I'd like the retry interval to be 1 minute.
> (can it be less?  Like 10 seconds?)
> 
>  
> 
> I've tried adding the following to services.cfg
> 
>         max_check_attempts         5
> 
>         normal_check_interval        5
> 
>         retry_check_interval           1
> 
>  
> 
> Shouldn't this retry a failed check every minute for 5 tries before
> sending a notification?
> 
>  
> 
> Using a test server, I pull the plug and Nagios catches the 100% ping
> loss but if I plug it back in as soon as it notices, Nagios emails me
> right away and doesn't return an Up state for another 5 minutes?
> 
>  
> 
> The following is what I receive on the status screen.. It shows a State
> Type: HARD.. Shouldn't it be in a SOFT state until it completes the
> max_check_attempts?
> 
>  
> 
> Current Status:   CRITICAL    
> 
> Status Information:FPING CRITICAL - 192.168.100.21 (loss=100.000000% )
> 
> Current Attempt:1/10 
> 
> State Type:HARD
> 
> Last Check Type:ACTIVE
> 
> Last Check Time:06-16-2004 15:38:06
> 
> Status Data Age: 0d 0h 0m 53s
> 
> Next Scheduled Active Check:  06-16-2004 15:43:06
> 
> Latency:2 seconds
> 
> Check Duration:< 1 second
> 
> Last State Change:06-16-2004 15:38:16
> 
> Current State Duration: 0d 0h 0m 43s
> 
> Last Service Notification:N/A
> 
> Current Notification Number:0
> 
> Is This Service Flapping?  NO  
> 
> Percent State Change:6.25%
> 
> In Scheduled Downtime?  NO  
> 
> Last Update:06-16-2004 15:38:56
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> tom
> 
> 
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