<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> Hi Nagios experts:</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Below is the Alert history for the the host , and the max_check_attemps is = 5</font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">[05-11-2009 16:46:57] HOST ALERT: benfwca;DOWN;HARD;5;FPING CRITICAL - (loss=100% )<br clear="all">
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">[05-11-2009 16:43:36] HOST ALERT: benfwca;DOWN;SOFT;4;FPING CRITICAL - (loss=100% )<br clear="all">
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">[05-11-2009 16:40:30] HOST ALERT: benfwca;DOWN;SOFT;3;FPING CRITICAL -(loss=100% )<br clear="all">
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">[05-11-2009 16:37:30] HOST ALERT: benfwca;DOWN;SOFT;2;FPING CRITICAL - (loss=100% )<br clear="all">
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">[05-11-2009 16:34:16] HOST ALERT: benfwca;DOWN;SOFT;1;FPING CRITICAL - (loss=100% )<br clear="all">
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">If you could notice the check frequency is approx= 3 min .</span></div>

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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Is it possible to reduce this parameter, if yes then what is the parameter that i have to look for.</span></div>

<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">I dont want to reduce the max_check_attemps to a lower value.</span></div>

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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">All i want to have is check every 1 min for 5 attemps and mark it as HARD state.</span></div>

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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Is it possible.??</span></div>

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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Thanks in Adv</span></div>

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Anirudh Srinivasan<br><br></div>