Socket timeout causes immediate critical notification

[Cristina Doblado]

 Check that you've got "is_volatile" set to 0 because if it's set to 1, 
it will override all interval settings.

 More details in: 
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#service

 
 Cristina


Castelhano, Dan wrote:

>Hi,
>
>We periodically get socket timeout errors with nrpe service checks. Problem
>is, a notification is sent on the very first socket timeout error (which is
>causing a critical status)...its not adhering to the max_check_attempts
>number defined in the host and service templates (its set to 3). We'll get a
>recovery email 30-60 seconds after the critical email.
>
>i did a grep search on all the config files just to make sure i didn't miss
>any max_check_attempts definitions hidden in the config files and confirmed
>they're all set to a minimum of 3 (one template is set to 10)
>
>i'm at a loss, and it doesn't help that these emails are being sent to my
>cell after hours. 
>
>I'm running nagios 1.2 on redhat 9.0 
>i'm using nsclient++ 1.22 on windows servers, and nrpe 2.0 on linux servers.
>
>
>All the socket timeouts are coming from nrpe service checks on the linux
>clients.
>
>any ideas what could be wrong? 
>
>Thanks,
>dan
>
>
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