max_check_attempts, retry_check_interval, and notifications: confusion

[prosolutions at gmx.net]

> >I am trying to configure the following behavior from nagios:
> >1. check a service every normal_check_interval
> >2. if service check fails, up the check rate to retry_check_interval
> >3. if 2 successive service checks fail, send notification
> >4. continue to check at retry_check_interval until service check
> >   succeeds and send notification
> 
> Yup 4 is the tough one.
> 

...

> For nagios 2.x you can use the adaptive monitoring (see manual)
> command: 'CHANGE_NORMAL_SVC_CHECK_INTERVAL:interval' to change the
> interval from an event handler. I would suggest using the
> objects.cache file to determine the configured normal_check_interval
> and retry_check_interval. You may have to cache that info for your
> event handler as I am not sure if that file is re-written when the
> intervals change.
> 

Thanks for your help.  Too bad nagios doesn't simply have object
configuration file options such as:

normal_check_interval    - how often to normally check when all OK
warning_check_interval   - how often to check when WARNING
critical_check_interval  - how often to check when CRITICAL
number_of_warnings_notification  - after how many WARNING checks to send
notification
number_of_critical_notification  - after how many CRITICAL checks to
send notification


at any rate the external command CHANGE_NORMAL_SVC_CHECK_INTERVAL does
seem to almost do what I want with one small problem: Service event
handlers recieve the following 3 macros: $SERVICESTATE$, $SERVICESTATETYPE$, $SERVICEATTEMPT$, yet in order to run CHANGE_NORMAL_SVC_CHECK_INTERVAL via an external command/event handler I need to provide the following to it:

CHANGE_NORMAL_SVC_CHECK_INTERVAL;host1;service1;15\n" $now > $commandfile

unfortunately $host$ is not provided to the external command via the
event handler.  I'm not sure how to tell my external command for what
host it should be changing the normal_check_interval.  How is the
external command supposed to know which host triggered its event
handler?



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