Alert History - what's this mean specifically.

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Craig [mailto:jrcraig.email at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:18 AM
> To: Marc Powell
> Cc: Nagios Users Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Alert History - what's this mean
specifically.
> 
> # 'check_ping' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check_ping
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$
-c
> $ARG2$ -p 5
>         }
> And here is my service definition:
> 
> service_description             PING
>         is_volatile                     0
>         check_period                    24x7
>         max_check_attempts              3
>         normal_check_interval           5
>         retry_check_interval            1
>         contact_groups                  nagiosadmin
>         notification_interval           120
>         notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            c,r
>         check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
>         }
> Is there a more optimal setting?

Whatever you feel is an unacceptable or unusual RTA for your network ;)
It's something you'll learn and depends on the types of connections you
have generally. We have a lot of high latency links so we have our
warning threshold at 500ms and critical at 1000.

--
Marc

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