Retry interval on hard states

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Tom Sommer
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 7:44 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Retry interval on hard states
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wish to setup the following check interval:
> 
> Check the service every 5 minutes
>   -> If down then check the service every 1 minute for 3 minutes/times
>    -> If still down, notify and continue to check the service every 1
> minute until it recovers.
> 
> I'm having a few problems with the last condition. Basically once the
> notification is sent, Nagios seems to revert to the "normal" check
> interval, which is 5 minutes - resulting in a substantial delay for
the
> recovery notification to be sent.

This is expected behavior. I'm curious, what kind of environment are you
in when up to 5 minute delay in notification of recovery is
'substantial'?
 
> Did I miss anything or is the above simply not possible?

Not possible as far as I know although it has been discussed at least
once before on this list. Perhaps someone else remembers or has a link
to that thread.

--
Marc

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