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<DIV>I am new to Nagios and have over 100 hosts that I am checking.</DIV>
<DIV>Everything is working fine with the hosts check except I have 1 host that will go "down" and then next immediate check be "up".</DIV>
<DIV>This happens several times a day but the host appears not to have had a problem.</DIV>
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<DIV>Any suggestions on what to check to resolve this problem as I suspect it is the host (Windows 2003 Server) not a network level problem.</DIV>
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<DIV>thanks<BR><BR>>>> On 1/14/2008 at 5:17 PM, in message <D85B0F5F-06DE-4CE0-9E72-875F8F3F6ABF@frontierflying.com>, Israel Brewster <israel@frontierflying.com> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 7px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 15px; BORDER-LEFT: #050505 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f3f3f3">I need some clarification as to how exactly the host check determines <BR>if a host is down. In the default configuration, the check-host-alive <BR>command sends a single ping, which can be considered (obviously) <BR>either ok, warning, or critical. The host then has a <BR>max_check_attempts setting of three, which if I understand things <BR>correctly means it will try this check twice more, in rapid <BR>succession, before putting the host into a hard state. My question is <BR>what is the logic if one of these three checks returns a different <BR>state than the other two? Say, for example, the first ping never makes <BR>it back, therefore returning a critical state, but the second and <BR>third come back, giving OK states? is the host then considered up or <BR>down? Thanks!<BR><BR>-----------------------------------------------<BR>Israel Brewster<BR>Computer Support Technician<BR>Frontier Flying Service Inc.<BR>5245 Airport Industrial Rd<BR>Fairbanks, AK 99709<BR>(907) 450-7250 x293<BR>-----------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace.<BR>It's the best place to buy or sell services for<BR>just about anything Open Source.<BR><A href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace">http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace</A><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Nagios-users mailing list<BR>Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><A href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios</A>-users<BR>::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. <BR>::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>