Here is an example of a Host. I have ~40-50 of these one after another in the minimal.cfg file. define host{ use nn-ping ; Name of host template to use host_name Ryan Whalen alias Ryan Whalen address <a href="http://192.168.1.15">192.168.1.15</a> check_command check-host-alive max_check_attempts 10 notification_interval 120 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,r contact_groups admins } Here is the service template: define service{ name nn-service ; The 'name' of this service template active_checks_enabled 1 ; Active service checks are enabled passive_checks_enabled 1 ; Passive service checks are enabled/accepted parallelize_check 1 ; Active service checks should be parallelized (disabling this can lead t obsess_over_service 1 ; We should obsess over this service (if necessary) check_freshness 0 ; Default is to NOT check service 'freshness' notifications_enabled 1 ; Service notifications are enabled event_handler_enabled 1 ; Service event handler is enabled flap_detection_enabled 1 ; Flap detection is enabled failure_prediction_enabled 1 ; Failure prediction is enabled process_perf_data 1 ; Process performance data retain_status_information 1 ; Retain status information across program restarts retain_nonstatus_information 1 ; Retain non-status information across program restarts register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE } Here is the actual service: define service{ use nn-service ; Name of service template to use host_name Ryan Whalen,(other hosts go here) service_description PING is_volatile 0 check_period 24x7 max_check_attempts 4 normal_check_interval 5 retry_check_interval 1 contact_groups admins notification_interval 960 notification_period 24x7 check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60% } <div>On 1/27/06, Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > -----Original Message----- > From: <a href="mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:nagios-users-">nagios-users-</a> > <a href="mailto:admin@lists.sourceforge.net">admin@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] On Behalf Of Ryan Whalen > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 12:09 PM > To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net </a> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Pinging every host at a specific interval? > > Hey everyone- > > I am new to Nagios, and this morning set everything up...everything seems > to be working, and I have nagios pinging a small number of hosts (~50). > What I would like to happen is for Nagios to ping them all every 5 > minutes, and display their status. However, some hosts have not been > polled for over 2 hours. > > It appears that since one device is down, Nagios is putting the priority > on polling that device rather than polling the other devices in the list. > I would like to avaid that, because the devices that are being polled are > at customer locations, so there will be times when either the device is > unplugged or simply locked up. I wouldn't consider this normal behavior and may indicate a configuration issue. Can you post your host and service definitions for one of these 'priority' hosts? You'll probably want to specifically look at normal_check_interval, retry_check_interval and max_check_attempts. Those specify how long nagios will 'dwell' on a particular host or service. For service checks nagios will continue to process other checks while performing retry checks of downed services. For host checks, nagios will stop all other processing while performing a host check (up to max_check_attempts for that host) but will then move back to normal scheduling after reaching max_check_attempts. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! <a href="http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmdlnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642">http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmdlnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 </a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users"> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>