is there a way to set host min_check_attempt?

[Thomas Stocking]

Hi Dinçer,
Not quite sure I follow your logic, but it looks like you want to 
control what happens with Nagios host checks.
Nagios will check the host if and when a service on that host enters a 
non-ok state. It then executes the plugin that you select as a 
host-alive check. If it comes back with a non-ok status on the first 
attempt, it will try again, up to the max number of attempts. If all 
attempts fail, it sets to host to state DOWN (or UNREACHABLE - see the 
parent directive). It then send a host alert, and notifications, if 
configured.
If it comes back OK, it stops checking the host, and sets it to OK. Then 
you will get a service alert, notifications, etc.

So, one way to be sure that you always ping 5 times when you are 
checking a host is to configure the plugin you use for the host-alive 
check to send 5 pings on each attempt:

$USER1$/check_icmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -n 5
for example.

You could also use a passive check to set the host state. This is a 
pretty advanced topic, but will give you great control over host checks.

One thing to consider is that Nagios 2.x and 1.x use a "blocking" host 
check. That is, whenever a host check is performed (actively), Nagios 
stops doing pretty much everything else. Thus it makes sense to optimize 
your active host checks. The longer they take, the larger the affect on 
overall latency. This will be fixed in v3, or so I have read. I have not 
tried v3 yet :)
    Thomas

Dinçer Kavraal wrote:
> Hi, (as to be numbers are only sample)
> We know that host assumed to be DOWN if host does not reply (or 
> timeout) for 5 times successively (I mean 5 distinct checks in order).
> Do you know how to make nagios assume that host is UP only and only if 
> host says OK to ping check for 5 times successively after a HARD-DOWN 
> status?
>
>
>
>
> 2007/3/25, Andy Shellam <andy.shellam-lists at mailnetwork.co.uk 
> <mailto:andy.shellam-lists at mailnetwork.co.uk>>:
>
>     Also, in your check_ping command definition, you're requesting the
>     host
>     respond within 30ms to be classed as up and OK.
>
>     This seems awfully quick - personally I request 1000ms (1 second) to
>     give it a fair amount of time to respond.  If the
>     host/router/whatever
>     is busy, it could take slightly longer than 30ms to reply, causing a
>     warning (or longer than 60ms to be 'down'.)
>
>     Andy.
>     [...]
>
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