Freshness checking not triggering immediate notification

[Zack Colgan]

Jon Angliss wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:19:46 -0400, Zack Colgan
> <zcolgan at clearbearing.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We're running a distributed Nagios setup (3.0.3 on the master, various 
>> versions on the satellites).  Freshness checks are enabled on all the 
>> passive services, and configured to go stale after 10 minutes of no new 
>> check data.
>>
>> What we're running into is the freshness checks, when executed, only put 
>> the service in a SOFT state.  This isn't very helpful, since we end up 
>> waiting another two freshness_threshold intervals (10 minutes, in this 
>> case) before the HARD state is reached an we get paged.
> 
> What's your max_check_attempts for the services? How many failures do
> you need to get for the passive checks before alerts are generated?  I
> recently (this morning actually) setup passive checks for one of our
> servers, and had no issues with configuring the freshness checks, but
> I consider max_check_attempts of 1 to be considered failures on this
> particular service/check.

max_check_attempts is set to 3, since we normally would want that many
checks to be evaluated before alerting us.  Your instance with one
max_check_attempt avoids the problem we're having.

Thanks,
-Zack

-- 
Zack Colgan
Consulting Engineer
ClearBearing, Inc.
zcolgan at clearbearing.com
(802) 846-1855


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