Checking more frequently when in non-OK state

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ian Chard wrote:
> I have a webserver that I need to monitor, but its webmaster doesn't
> want it to be checked more than once an hour.  I want to configure
> Nagios so that checks are run once an hour when it's in an OK state,
> but once every 60 seconds when it's not OK.
> 
> I've read the documentation about normal_check_interval and
> retry_check_interval, but I think what I want is something slightly
> different:  I still want the alert sent as soon as a non-OK state is
> detected, but if I set max_check_attempts to 1 then retry_check_interval
> never gets used.
> 
> Is there another way around this?
> 

No. The max_check_attempts is meant to be used to suppress notifications 
when there are temporary glitches in the network. It won't matter much 
anyway, since you'll at most have a notification delay of 
default_check_interval anyway (if the webserver goes down the second 
after nagios has checked it it will be an hour before you receive a 
notification).

OTOH, if the webserver is so fragile it can't stand checking once every 
three or five minutes, you might want to look at replacing it. If it's 
so non-critical it doesn't matter if its down for an hour or so you 
might not want to check it at all.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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