How can I delay checks when a host goes down?

[Chris Koniecny]

	How can I delay checks when a host goes down?  Right now when the host
is DOWN, the checks are happening every 3 seconds until it reaches the
max checks when it is determined that the host/service is DOWN. 

Example of what I'm speaking of (Notice the time between each check):

...

[08-10-2003 02:55:42] HOST ALERT: Server;DOWN;SOFT;3;/bin/ping -n -U -c
1 192.168.0.1
[08-10-2003 02:55:39] HOST ALERT: Server;DOWN;SOFT;2;/bin/ping -n -U -c
1 192.168.0.1
[08-10-2003 02:55:36] HOST ALERT: Server;DOWN;SOFT;1;/bin/ping -n -U -c
1 192.168.0.1

...

And so on... 

	I want there to be a host/service down check interval of 30 seconds or
more, rather than 3 seconds.  I don't have a clue how to expand this
type of check interval.  I'm trying to expand this over 10 minutes to
make sure the host/service is DOWN before any notifications are being
sent out.  I would like to expand this over 10 minutes, which should be
more than enough time to determine that a host/service is down and going
to stay down.  But if I were to use the 3 second interval as is, I would
have Nagios performing ((60/3)*10) = 200 checks in 10 minutes.  It would
be much simpler if I could check the DOWN host/service every 30 seconds
which would result in only 20 checks (less load on the Nagios server).

		Thanks,
		    Chris Koniecny



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