host retry_check_interval

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Sun, 6 May 2007, john wrote:

> It seems a bit of an oversight that this is missing. I'm trying to monitor
> a service on a host to see if it's down (there is only one service I'm
> monitoring). I only want to know if it's been down for 15minutes. I can
> set the service up fine for this but if the host is unreachable (it's not
> on my network) it'll tell me immediatly.
>
> The only way I can see round this is to set first notification to a
> blackhole and then escalate to the appropriate contact after 15mins, but
> it seems silly using the notification interval in place of a retry
> interval.

Set the host to a dummy check and only use the service check.

If you check the archicves you will see that host checks are rather 
different from service check by design.

Hugo.

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