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[Patrick Morris]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

> > Oh, one other thought:
> >
> > Any chance it was caused by a soft fail state, wherein the service
> > recovered before it entered a hard state?  If so, you won't receive a
> > notification about it.
> 
> It would be nice if one could flag soft states as cause for sending 
> alerts.
> 
> The Nagios CGI passive checks always seem to make states soft-down, which 
> is bad.

Is max_check attempts for those services set to something other than 1?
If you've told it to wait for (for example) 3 checks, it's doing what you 
told it to and keeping the state soft until the third check arrives.

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