Host check doesn't wait in-between checks.

[Jan Kratochvil]

Hi,

it is being discussed here again and again. Some working solution(s) attached.


Regards,
Lace


On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:37:04 +0200, Josh Konkol wrote:
> Kyle Tucker <kylet <at> panix.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > What is the point of setting a Host max_check_attempts if 
> Nagios isn't going to
> > > wait in between checking?
> > 
> > I too wish I had more time between host checks and you've prompted me
> > to try something in my check_alive script. Would this snippet do the 
> > trick?
> > 
> > TIMEGAP=10  # number of seconds before host checks
> > 
> > if [ $HOSTSTATE$ = "DOWN" -a $HOSTSTATETYPE$ = "SOFT" ]
> > then
> > 	sleep $TIMEGAP
> > fi
> > 
> > exit 2
> > 
> > I would have used ...
> > 
> > if [ $HOSTSTATE$ = "DOWN" -a $HOSTATTEMPT$ -lt 
> $MAXHOSTATTEMPT$ ]
> > then
> > 	sleep $TIMEGAP
> > fi
> > 
> > ... but oddly there seems to be no $MAXHOSTATTEMPT$ macro.
> > 
> 
> 
> OK so the simple solution would be to change my check-host-command 
> to include a sleep 10 at the end.  i.e.:
> 
> $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% 
> -p 3 && sleep 10
> 
> You think that would work?
> 
> Josh
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