Alerts delayed for critical services

[Jon Angliss]

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On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:29:09 -0500, "Serafin, Chris"
<CSerafin at RKON.com> wrote:

>The comments are actually from the default Nagios config file and not what I am intending to do. Sorry I should have clarified. I basically want to get alerts ASAP. Thanks.

Hugo has you on the right directions.  Assuming you left the times set
the default in the nagios.cfg, your check times every 3 minutes
(normal_check_interval), and you expect 3 failures
(max_check_attempts).  After the first failure, it'll check every
minute (retry_check_interval).  If you want to get alerts as soon as a
service fails, reduce max_check_attempts, and normal_check_interval. 
However, you'll need to expect false alerts.  So reduce
normal_check_interval to 1 so it tests every minute, and leave
max_check_attempts at three, then after 3 minutes of failures, you'll
get alerted.

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Jon Angliss

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