Pinging every host at a specific interval?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Whalen
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 12:09 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Pinging every host at a specific interval?
> 
> Hey everyone-
> 
> I am new to Nagios, and this morning set everything up...everything
seems
> to be working, and I have nagios pinging a small number of hosts
(~50).
> What I would like to happen is for Nagios to ping them all every 5
> minutes, and display their status.  However, some hosts have not been
> polled for over 2 hours.
> 
> It appears that since one device is down, Nagios is putting the
priority
> on polling that device rather than polling the other devices in the
list.
> I would like to avaid that, because the devices that are being polled
are
> at customer locations, so there will be times when either the device
is
> unplugged or simply locked up.

I wouldn't consider this normal behavior and may indicate a
configuration issue. Can you post your host and service definitions for
one of these 'priority' hosts? You'll probably want to specifically look
at normal_check_interval, retry_check_interval and max_check_attempts.
Those specify how long nagios will 'dwell' on a particular host or
service. For service checks nagios will continue to process other checks
while performing retry checks of downed services. For host checks,
nagios will stop all other processing while performing a host check (up
to max_check_attempts for that host) but will then move back to normal
scheduling after reaching max_check_attempts.

--
Marc 


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