Nagios Macros: SERVICEDURATION Vs HOSTDURATION

[Simone Felici]

Hello to all!

I'm using the macros "HOSTDURATION" and "SERVICEDURATION" to notify how many time the host or 
service is in the current state. Looking on the definition:

host:
A string indicating the amount of time that the host has spent in its current state. Format is "XXh 
YYm ZZs", indicating hours, minutes and seconds.

service:
A string indicating the amount of time that the service has spent in its current state. Format is 
"XXh YYm ZZs", indicating hours, minutes and seconds.

Assuming I've a host as follow:
ping hostckeck with 2 retries (60secs)
service with 3 retries (60secs)
host checks made only on demand, when required

When the host goes in DOWN HARD STATE (2 checks made, more than 60secs passed) the notification is 
sent with HOSTDURATION = "0d 0h 0m 0s" (or some secs more).
When the service enters in CRITICAL HARD STATE (3 checks made, more than 120secs passed) the 
notification is sent with SERVICEDURATION = "0d 0h 2m 0s" (or some secs more, depends on latency I 
think).

So, it seems the HOSTDURATION timer starts when the host is in HARD STATE down, but the 
SERVICEDURATION timer starts when the service is in his first SOFT STATE CRITICAL.

Is this correct? A bug? I think the service is in the correct situation.

Thank's a lot

Simon

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