inconsistencies across distributed servers

[Morris, Patrick]

Noel Platzke wrote:
> I'm occasionally seeing inconsistencies across my distributed setup. 
> It's very infrequent but the result is that occasionally the data sent 
> to a master will either incorrectly trigger or fail to trigger an 
> alert. The first time I saw this it was with a host being marked as 
> hard down in a distributed server but incorrectly marked as soft down 
> in the master. Today I saw the opposite.
>
> distributed server:
> [11-16-2009 11:29:01] HOST ALERT: server01;DOWN;SOFT;1;PING CRITICAL - 
> Packet loss = 100%
>
> master server:
> [11-16-2009 11:29:24] HOST ALERT: server01;DOWN;HARD;1;PING CRITICAL - 
> Packet loss = 100%
>
> The slave servers are using the same config as the master so I'm at a 
> loss as to what could cause this inconsistency. Does anyone have any 
> idea what is going on?
>
This would be normal, assuming you've got passive_host_checks_are_soft=0 
in your config.

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