Making alarms less sensitive

Demetri Mouratis dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu
Tue Mar 14 02:38:05 CET 2006


On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Nick wrote:

> Is there any way of making nagios a bit less sensitive to outages? I have it 
> setup monitoring a webserver that will often go away for a few seconds and 
> come back which nagios will quite rightly report on. I just wondered how i'd 
> go about extending the down time before notify to say 10 mins?

You'll want to adjust the following paramters for the service definitions 
in question, with max_check_attempts being the most direct fix to the 
problem you've presented.

max_check_attempts 
normal_check_interval 
retry_check_interval



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