How to reduce Host Check rate ?

[Martin Haller]

Hi,

Nagios produces some noisy host alerts we want to reduce. The
situation in detail:

If an host/router goes down for 2 minutes, for example, the PING
service check will notice this and the PING state will go to soft
CRITICAL.

The host check is fired n times (max_check_attempts in the host
profile) - but - with no delay such as the service checks have one
(retry_check_interval).

The Problem is that the host state changes to hard critical in a few
seconds and email/sms ist sent out. The result is a huge crowd of
services arpearing for just one or two minutes in state hard
CRITICAL.

The nagios version we use is 2.0b3.

My question is: Did I just not find the delay parameter for tuning the
host check retry rate ? How did You tune Your setup to avoid this ?

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MfG/Best regards,  Martin Haller <mah at LF.net>
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