[Nagiosplug-help] question about failing check

[Mike Loud]

Benny,

Thank you that’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again, this isn't 
the first time you’ve helped me out :)





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-----Original Message----- 
From: C. Bensend
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:40 AM
To: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-help] question about failing check


> Is there a way to change the interval of the check if it fails the first
> time though? If it fails, instead of waiting another 5 minutes to check
> again, can the check run in 10 seconds? For example, if apache doesn’t
> respond, check again in 10 seconds to make sure it isn't just a network
> lag
> or hiccup, and if that fails then execute the event handler? From my
> understanding, the failure count can be set but the check interval is a
> constant, or am I wrong on that? Thank you for the reply.

Nagios does that itself (see retry_interval).

I would recommend against 10 seconds; chances are whatever problem
you're experiencing would still be there, and by default Nagios
doesn't really have that fine-grained timing.

I run with a great majority of my services on a five-minute
check_interval, and a one-minute retry_interval.  That means that
services are checked once per five minutes normally, and then
retried once per minute when they are in a non-OK soft state.  That
seems to be a happy medium for me for catching problems promptly,
while trying to minimize nuisance alerts.

Benny


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