Yes I agree... But, I do export to a third application the service's perfdata. (using service_perfdata_file* instructions of Nagios). That third application is extracting from it whether services are up or down and doing some actions in consequence. This behavior is a problem to me because of two facts : - The third application is aware of a problem before the timing I expect it to be. (normally should be around "max_check_attempts * retry_check_interval") - The administrator may not receive e-mail notification if the host is up again before the host gets "CRITICAL HARD". And the information has passed to that third application anyway! Hope you understand a bit more the inconsistency. Samuel Bancal <div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/18 Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"> On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:47 AM, Samuel Bancal wrote: > Thanks for your answer, > > In fact it is normal behavior to me also. > Thing that is not "normal behavior" to me is that between two checks, Nagios jumps from "SOFT 1" to "HARD 1" without doing the steps "SOFT 1" > "SOFT 2" > "SOFT 3" and finally "HARD 4". </div>If the host is down, why should nagios go through all that? There's no possibility for the service to be up when the host is not. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div> -- Samuel Bancal - CH