Alert History - what's this mean specifically.

[Carl Friend]

   Justin Craig asks:

> What is the trigger for these events? Is it a response time
> threshold or is it a % increase in RTA or something else? 
>
> [08-15-2006 07:37:52] SERVICE ALERT:
>
> dallas-swe-3568-1.cpa.state.tx.us;PING;WARNING;SOFT;1;PING
> WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 107.07 ms
>
> [08-15-2006 07:37:50] SERVICE ALERT:
>
> staffdev-2600.cpa.state.tx.us;PING;WARNING;SOFT;1;PING
> WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 163.27 ms

    It looks like your RTA threshold is set to 100 mS.  Check it in
your services.cfg file or checkcommands.cfg file.  Increase it as
appropriate (hosts external to your own LAN should have longer RTA
settings than internal LAN hosts).

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