soft state turns to hard state after a delay

[Andreas Ericsson]

Matthias Bertschy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Right now I am evaluating Nagios for an extensive use within our 
> company. I have a question about soft/hard state transformation.
> 
> On the page:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/statetypes.html
> I read:
> Hard states occur (...) (w)hen a service check results in a non-OK state 
> and it has been (re)checked the number of times specified by the 
> </max_check_attempts/> option in the service definition.
> 
> Would it be possible to specify a time period allowed for the service to 
> recover instead of a number of checks? For example, I would like to let 
> a service (such as apache) try to recover from its own during 30min 
> before warning the administrator. Is that possible (ideally without 
> tweaking the </max_check_attempts/> and the delay between checks)?
> 

As this is the only reason for the retry_check_interval and 
max_check_attempts to exist, I see no reason why you would possibly want 
to do it witouth tweaking them.

Set retry_check_interval to 2 and max_check_attempts to 15, and you're 
good to go.

If you absolutely cannot stand tweaking those two variables (why, oh 
why?!) there is still a way out. Read up on escalations. It's in the docs.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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