The retry check interval should be smaller value than the normal check interval. When a problem is detected, you don't want to delay the check even more, you want to retry the check and find out if there really is a problem. Here is a good reference for you:<div> </div><div><a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/statetypes.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/statetypes.html</a> </div><div> </div><div>-TR <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Nair <<a href="mailto:vmanojv@rediffmail.com" target="_blank">vmanojv@rediffmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Wolf for the response. Howwver i am curious to know whether we can set a retry check interval greater than normal check interval. I dont see any mention about the same in the docs. Thanks Nair On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:14:37 +0530 wrote<div class="im HOEnZb"> > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Nair wrote: Hi All Is there any harm is setting retry check interval plus max check attempt greater than normal check interval. Say like configs below: Config#1 normal_check_interval=10min retry_check_interval=5min max_check_attempt=4 Config#2 normal_check_interval=5min retry_check_interval=10min max_check_attempt=3 Thank you in advance. Regards Nair </div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> Follow Rediff Deal ho jaye! to get exciting offers in your city everyday. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. 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So if you have a large number of tests on a large number of machines, doubling the frequency of the tests is probably a bad idea. What value do you think would accrue from increasing the frequency of tests? In my network, Nagios is set to start sending email notifications if the failure condition persists more than 3 test periods, i.e., the remote disk root partition is unreachable for longer than 30 minutes. This particular test fails on my ftp server during large file transfers, with the message, plug-in timed out. This has not turned out to be an actual problem, but is an artifact of flooding the network with file-transfer traffic. In this case it is more sensible to let the file transfers go through than to know to an utmost certainty that the drive is not too full. 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