> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Keplinger > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:44 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Simple Host Monitoring - ICMP > > > I have Nagios running on Linux monitoring around 500 hosts on our network. > For most of those hosts, we only need to know if they respond to a ping. > Since I've read that enabling "active host checks" may cause performance > problems, I made an "ICMP" service and assigned each server to it. > > This works great save for one problem: If a host fails to respond to the > ICMP service check, it instantly jumps to the host check (which is also a > ping) and times out after 1 1/2 minutes (or 10 host check pings with 10 > second timeouts). > > What I need is for it to behave like a standard service check, that is to > obey by the rules of the retry_interval. Is this possible?
It is behaving like a standard nagios-2 service check. If any service on a host returns a non-OK result, the host is checked immediately. If the host check fails, it goes critical immediately. I would advise disabling host checks for those ping-only hosts to get the behavior you desire. Nagios-3 introduces the behavior you are looking for. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null