Creating a criteria:

[Paul Dubuc]

Alex Griffin wrote:

> Aravinth Anto Intern wrote:
>> Hi all, I'm new to nagios. And trying to figure out how do I do this :
>>
>> Response time>  2s for 10 continuous requests in a 5 minutes.
>>
>> If this is the case then I need to create a alert.
>>
>> I defined a template for this :
>>
>>
>> define host{
>>
>> 	host_name			 test
>>
>> 	;other stufs
>>
>>           ;check command so that response time is less than 2s
>>
>> 	check_interval			5
>>
>> 	retry_interval			1
>>
>> 	max_check_attempts		10
>>
>> 	check_period			24x7
>>
>> 	}
>>
>> For my criteria :
>>
>> Response time>  2s for 10 continuous requests in a 5 minutes.
>>
>> Is that correct?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
 >
> No, this will only check once every 5 minutes. The max_check_attempts
> directive is for retrying after a failed check. You need to find or
> write a plugin that does all 10 requests itself and then set it up as a
> *passive* check in Nagios. I believe it must be passive, otherwise
> Nagios will kill it for running too long.
>
> Alex Griffin
> ---

Another way would be to set the retry interval to 0.5.  If the whole purpose 
of the check is to fail when the response time is greater than 2 seconds, then 
the check would be run every 30 seconds as long as it keeps failing and would 
enter a hard state, generating a notification, if it kept failing for 5 minutes.


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