mail notification and notification_interval

[Marc Powell]

On Friday, January 30, 2004 10:36 AM, Neil shared with us:

> Hi Jason,
> 
> After spending hours studying each configuration and looking at the
> state status in the webpage monitor, I noticed that the attempts
> increments such as 1/3, then 2/3, and lastly 3/3. Then it becomes
> HARD. LOL. Anyways, I also found out that the value 3 is actually the
> max_check_attempts I defined for that service.  

This is documented.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/statetypes.html
  
> 
> I have a question now. Am I correct that if we set
> "max_check_attempts" to 10, and we have "retry_check_interval" set at
> 5, then before we can receive an email, it will take 50 minutes? The
> way I understand this config is that it will check the service every
> 5 minutes, then it will try 10 times before it changes the STATE to
> hard.     

That is correct, within a few minutes either way.

--
Marc


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