alerts

[Az]

>
> On 10/19/06, Az <az at whoever.org> wrote:
>   
>> Brian Loe wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there a way, at all, to specify that if pings are lost - but at
>>> least one gets through - or get slow, then nagios waits until the next
>>> check before alerting on it. However, if all pings fail, it alerts on
>>> the first check?
>>>
>>>       
>> The check_ping plugin allows you to specify round trip and packet loss
>> thresholds, so that might be a solution for you.
>>
>>     
Brian Loe wrote:
> I'm using check_icmp, I think, and I believe it does the same - but
> how do I differentiate between alert on the first complete failure,
> but check twice before alerting when the threshold is exceeded?
If I am reading this right, you're saying you have two criteria for a 
failure (presumably for a host check):

1. *All* packets "fail" on the first check (be it from none arriving or 
taking too long).
2. *Some* packets "fail" on the first and subsequent check.

The only two ways I can think of doing this (and I'm sure there'll be 
others) are:

* Write a custom plugin that carries over the result of the previous 
check so that the next check can see if case #2 applies.
* Some creative mixing of the normal check_icmp/ping/fping plugin with 
the desired thresholds, and the host max_check_attempts directive 
(although I don't think this will give you exactly what you want, but 
you might be able to live with it).
* Use an event handler that is triggered when some (but not all) packets 
fail to meet your criteria, which kicks off a check of its own behind 
the scene and if that check meets case #2, submit a passive result.

Cheers.




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