How to have a service only alert on the 2nd or 3rd 'unavailable' alert?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Patrick - South Valley
> Internet
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:11 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] How to have a service only alert on the 2nd or
3rd
> 'unavailable' alert?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We have a service we are monitoring that there is something screwy at
> their location.  It will go down, then 2 seconds later go back up.  We
> want Nagios to only page us if it goes down for a longer period of
time,
> let's say the 2nd or 3rd time Nagios sees that it is not pingable.
> 
> Is this possible?

Yep. See the service definition docs on max_check_attempts and
retry_check_interval.

--
Marc

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