Hosts report 'DOWN, HARD' after first attempt.

[Jonathan Call]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:20 PM
> To: nagios-users Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts report 'DOWN, HARD' after first
attempt.
> 
> 
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Patrick Morris wrote:
> 
> > The max_check_attempts only applies to active checks, not the
passive
> > ones you're sending the central server (at least I assume when you
> > said
> > max_retry_interval you meant max_check_attempts)  -- and you may
note
> > that SOFT and HARD are only relative to the server doing the
checking;
> > they probably aren't passed as part of the passive check submission
> > process.
> 
> Correct, all passive host checks are assumed to be HARD states. Note
> that this is addressed in nagios-3 --
> 
>
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html#passive_host_chec
ks
> _are_soft
> 
> --
> Marc
> 

If they're all assumed to be SOFT, then a host failure would never
trigger a notification?

Another potential option, if you're not using NSCA (like those using the
OCP_daemon) is to have the slave servers send out the notification
emails instead of the central one. The slaves would be active monitors
and would honor the host's max_check_attempts variable. This of course
introduces other problems if the slave is behind a restrictive firewall.

Jonathan


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