Host retry interval

[Holger Weiss]

* Eli Stair <estair at ilm.com> [2006-05-22 12:49]:
> HOST check mode is initiated once the service reaches the HARD state, which
> comes on the last allowed check as defined by max_check_attempts for that
> service.  Ergo, if you set your service checks max to 15, after 15 minutes
> (assuming your delay is 60 seconds) your service will hit a HARD CRITICAL,
> and host checks will fire.

That's not correct, host checks are performed as soon as a service check
returns some non-OK status.

> On 5/22/06 12:45 PM, "Kyle Tucker" <kylet at panix.com> wrote:
> > According to the docs, "Nagios checks the status of a host is when a service
> > check results in a non-OK status.". Is that when it reaches a HARD state
> > after all iterations of max_check_attempts are done or as soon as it goes to
> > non-OK (SOFT) state? If the latter, which seems to be when it's kicking off
> > host checks, I don't see how increasing the service checks will help.

True, the `max_check_attempts' and `retry_check_interval' settings for
the service won't affect your problem.

Holger

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