Nagios alarms going from WARNING to CRITICAL state

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 29/05/08 04:24 AM, Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote:
> We are running Nagios 2.11.  When a check fails, Nagios configuration
> allows a number of retries of the check before the error becomes "HARD";
> we find that this works well for checks which start "OK" and go
> "CRITICAL".  However does the retry mechanism apply when a check goes
> from "WARNING" to "CRITICAL" ?  In other words, if a check is in
> "WARNING" state and then goes "CRITICAL", does it first become
> "CRITICAL/SOFT", or does it become "CRITICAL/HARD" straightaway ?

No. Any non-OK state will increment the counter, and if it's already in
HARD state it will send a new notification.

Thomas
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