notification_interval < normal_check_interval

[Paul M. Dubuc]

Mike Chesnut wrote:
> I have a check that I only want to occur once a day, so I do this in the
> service definition:
>
>           normal_check_interval   1440
>
> However, when it fails, I want it to retry every 10 minutes, so I do this:
>
>           retry_check_interval    10
>
> My default notification_interval is set to 15.  When I run a pre-flight
> check, I get this:
>
> Warning: Service '<service>' on host'<host>'  has a notification
> interval less than its check interval!  Notifications are only re-sent
> after checks are made, so the effective notification interval will be
> that of the check interval.
>
> Is that warning telling me that notifications are only sent when a
> normal check occurs?  What I want is for in the event of a failure,
> notifications to continue to be sent (every 15 minutes) until the
> service recovers.  Will that be the case?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>

What is the value of max_check_attempts?  It's at the end of that number of 
checks that the service enters a hard state and a notification is sent.  If 
the value is 1, then the warning makes perfect sense because no retry checks 
will be done.

Paul Dubuc

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