Alerts generated when max_check_attempts set to 3

[Fernando Rocha]

Hi Deborah,

As Seth said, you are right!

The point is when the service changes its state type. It is also responsable for the send notifications.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/statetypes.html

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----- "Seth Simmons" <ssimmons at cymfony.com> wrote:

> Yes you are.
> 
> If you have a host notification and set max_check_attempts to 1 and,
> let's say you also have check_interval to 60 (1 min) for a host then
> disconnect the cable, within the next minute Nagios check will fail
> and
> send immediate notification of host down because the check attempt
> was
> 1.  If you say max_check_attempts is 3, and do the same thing, the
> host
> will show as down, but unless you reconnect within the next couple
> min
> before that 3rd check, Nagios won't send out a notification.  Once it
> hits that 3rd check and is still in a down state, it will then send
> notification of host down.  If by the 3rd check it has recovered, no
> notification is sent.
> 
> HTH
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deborah Martin [mailto:Deborah.Martin at Kognitio.com] 
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 6:08 AM
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Alerts generated when max_check_attempts set
> to
> 3
> Importance: High
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Just a quick question - I'm changing the max_check_attempts from 1 to
> 3
> for
> a specific plugin and I wondered, does this mean that an email
> notification
> won't go out until the 3rd attempt is reached ? (Which is what I want
> to
> achieve). Or will all 3 attempts generate an email notification. 
> 
> The docs say the following :- 
> 
> "max_check_attempts: This directive is used to define the number of
> times
> that Nagios will retry the service check command if it returns any
> state
> other than an OK state. Setting this value to 1 will cause Nagios to
> generate an alert without retrying the service check again. "
> 
> Am I understanding this correctly ? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Deborah  
> 
> 
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