Host check clarification

[Patrick Morris]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Israel Brewster wrote:

> I need some clarification as to how exactly the host check determines
> if a host is down. In the default configuration, the check-host-alive
> command sends a single ping, which can be considered (obviously)
> either ok, warning, or critical. The host then has a
> max_check_attempts setting of three, which if I understand things
> correctly means it will try this check twice more, in rapid
> succession, before putting the host into a hard state. My question is
> what is the logic if one of these three checks returns a different
> state than the other two? Say, for example, the first ping never makes
> it back, therefore returning a critical state, but the second and
> third come back, giving OK states? is the host then considered up or
> down? Thanks!

Any OK state will reset the retry counter, because it means the host is
up.

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