[Fwd: Re: soft state turns to hard state after a delay]

[Matthias Bertschy]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Nagios-users] soft state turns to hard state after a delay
Date: 	Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:19:20 +0100
From: 	Matthias Bertschy <matthias at echotech.ch>
To: 	Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
References: 	<4235D080.2020409 at echotech.ch> <4235E1AD.5010308 at op5.se>



Marc Powell and you are right, I must be fool not to use these config 
options.

However, I wonder whether these are still working for a service 
passively checked?

Anyway, thx for your help :-)

Matthias

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> 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.
>




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