Unexpected service alerts based on plugin timed out - Bug, WAD, or Administrator error?

[nathan]

To stop the spam of alerts I recompiled my plugins so that timeouts were
warnings and not critical then setup my contacts to not get alerted on
service warnings.

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:24:20PM -0500, Nolan Martin wrote:
> I've seen this issue pop up several times in the archives, but without
> any apparent resolution...  Perhaps someone can shed some light this
> time.  
> 
> I receive on-going (unexpected and undesired) service alerts due to
> timed out plugins.  This occurs for pretty much any service, including
> the check_ping, the check_http and check_nwstat (for abends, etc.).
> 
> The problem is that the plugin timed out alerts do not seem to follow
> the max_check_attempts for the service.  So, even if the previous ping
> was okay, if the next ping check generates a time out, it immediately
> generates a service alert (despite the fact that max_check_attempts is
> set to 5.
> 
> Can someone tell me if this is working as designed, a bug, or (always
> unlikely) administrator error?
> 
> I am currently running Nagios 1.0b3 on Red Hat Linux 7.3.  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Nolan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Nathan


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