no max check attempts for host checking?

[Frost, Mark {PBG}]

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>[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
>Of Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
>Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:37 PM
>To: Mark Frost
>Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] no max check attempts for host checking?
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>On 09/05/08 12:46 PM, Mark Frost wrote:
>> Hello.  I have something that's not working the way I'd expect.
>> 
>> We are monitoring services on windows hosts and as is common 
>practice,
>> not explicitly checking the host state.  Wehn the host gets 
>rebooted, I
>> expect that a service might fail, then Nagios would attempt a host
>> check.  I would like the host check to not alert on a single ping
>> failure, but rather hold off for say 5 failures before it sends an
>> alert.  The intent is to not get an alert if the box is just being 
>> rebooted.
>> 
>> I've set the following for my test host:
>> 
>> max_check_attempts 10
>> check_interval 0
>> retry_interval 1
>> active_checks_enabled no
>> 
>> 
>> Our configuration is a distributed one so the distributed node has
>> obsession turned on, but the central node does not.
>> 
>> When testing, we find that no matter what I set the 
>max_check_attempts
>> to, an alert is sent on the first ping failure.
>> 
>> Is there something I'm missing?
>
>No. Nagios 2.0 always treat passive host checks as HARD.
>
>Here's the answer from Ethan about this:
>
>http://osdir.com/ml/network.nagios.devel/2006-07/msg00009.html
>
>Thomas

Hmmm.  I'm actually running Nagios 3.0.2 (sorry forgot to mention that).

The central server has host checking disabled, but allows passive
checks.  The distributed node is configured for active checks (of
course) and obsessing.  The host configuration on the distributed node
lists the max_check_attempts as 10.

Mark

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