Nagios retries checks too soon.

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 06/09/2011 03:43 PM, Paul M. Dubuc wrote:
> Running Nagios 3.2.3, here is an example from the log that shows Nagios
> retrying a failed check after only 10 seconds.  The normal check interval is
> 7.5 minutes, retry interval is 1 minute, max. check attempts is 3.
> 
> Note that this test has a timeout of 130 seconds, so it's been running for
> over 2 minutes when it times out.  Does Nagios do retries sooner when the
> timeout for a check is longer than the retry interval?  Is the retry interval
> measured from the time the previous check starts, or from the time it ends?
> 

I'm not sure. I'm also not sure which behaviour is intended. Arguably, either
is correct and Nagios is doing one of two right things.

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