Host check doesn't wait in-between checks.
Jan Kratochvil
lace at jankratochvil.net
Tue Jun 6 20:48:15 CEST 2006
Hi,
it is being discussed here again and again. Some working solution(s) attached.
Regards,
Lace
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:37:04 +0200, Josh Konkol wrote:
> Kyle Tucker <kylet <at> panix.com> writes:
>
> >
> > >
> > > What is the point of setting a Host max_check_attempts if
> Nagios isn't going to
> > > wait in between checking?
> >
> > I too wish I had more time between host checks and you've prompted me
> > to try something in my check_alive script. Would this snippet do the
> > trick?
> >
> > TIMEGAP=10 # number of seconds before host checks
> >
> > if [ $HOSTSTATE$ = "DOWN" -a $HOSTSTATETYPE$ = "SOFT" ]
> > then
> > sleep $TIMEGAP
> > fi
> >
> > exit 2
> >
> > I would have used ...
> >
> > if [ $HOSTSTATE$ = "DOWN" -a $HOSTATTEMPT$ -lt
> $MAXHOSTATTEMPT$ ]
> > then
> > sleep $TIMEGAP
> > fi
> >
> > ... but oddly there seems to be no $MAXHOSTATTEMPT$ macro.
> >
>
>
> OK so the simple solution would be to change my check-host-command
> to include a sleep 10 at the end. i.e.:
>
> $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100%
> -p 3 && sleep 10
>
> You think that would work?
>
> Josh
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