Is there a way to delay UP;HARD checks?

[Douglas E. Warner]

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On Friday 19 September 2003 19:25, Sto Rage® wrote:
> Well, isn't that the point of your monitoring? Each host has a purpose
> (service) on your network, so if its not serving that purpose (service not
> running) then shouldn't you consider that host as being down?
> E.g. I have a Win2k Fax Server, if its not running the fax service I
> consider the host as down, even if I am able to ping it, and other services
> are running.
> So in your case, if its not critical for you if a card is down, then why
> monitor that card in the first place?

No, its not the same.  If I have more than enough modem cards (failover) to 
handle calls, the NAS still works despite one being down.  The fact that the 
one card is down is still bad, but not so bad that the function of the box is 
nullified.
People run multiple services on their boxes; sometimes these services fail to 
start or stop working, that's why we check them.  Sometimes these services 
also take 7 minutes to boot, and I don't want to hear that they're still down 
until they've been down for 15 minutes.
Also, this can't be the same as setting a adjusting max_check_attempts and 
*_check_interval, because if it goes down after the box has been running 
correctly for awhile, I care immediately; only if the box has JUST come out 
of a DOWN state do I care that it's taking so long for the service to come 
up.

- -Doug

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Douglas E. Warner    <dwarner at ctinetworks.com>     Network Engineer
CTI/PAdotNET         http://ctinetworks.com        +1 717 975 9000
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