Nagios host check retry interval inconsistent

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 11/11/2010 11:06 AM, Yu Watanabe wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I would like to ask a regarding to the host check retry interval.
> This is about nagios 3.0.6 , little bit old.
> 
> I have set the interval length as 30 and the host check retry interval as default , 1.
> 
> However, the interval seems to be not always 40 which includes the reaper interval.
> 
> [1289460951] HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;SOFT;2;CRITICAL - 192.1.1.1: rta nan, lost 100%
> [1289460991] HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;SOFT;3;CRITICAL - 192.1.1.1: rta nan, lost 100%
> [1289461011] HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;SOFT;4;CRITICAL - 192.1.1.1: rta nan, lost 100%
> [1289461032] HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;SOFT;5;CRITICAL - 192.1.1.1: rta nan, lost 100%
> [1289461071] HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;SOFT;6;CRITICAL - 192.1.1.1: rta nan, lost 100%
> [1289461101] HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;SOFT;7;CRITICAL - 192.1.1.1: rta nan, lost 100%
> [1289461111] HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;SOFT;8;CRITICAL - 192.1.1.1: rta nan, lost 100%
> [1289461151] HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;SOFT;9;CRITICAL - 192.1.1.1: rta nan, lost 100%
> [1289461191] HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;HARD;10;CRITICAL - 192.1.1.1: rta nan, lost 100%
> 
> Is there a certain rule in nagios process about this ?
> 

Failing service checks trigger host checks. I think there was some
patch to make forced hostchecks not count as an attempt. I might
be mistaken though, but if you upgrade your Nagios you should see
it behave differently.

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