Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts report 'DOWN, HARD' after first attempt.

2009-01-16 Thread Marc Powell
On Jan 16, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Jonathan Call wrote: > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html#passive_host_chec > ks_are_soft > > If they're all assumed to be SOFT, then a host failure would never > trigger a notification? My interpretation of the parameter is that passive host resu

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts report 'DOWN, HARD' after first attempt.

2009-01-16 Thread Jonathan Call
> -Original Message- > From: Marc Powell [mailto:m...@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

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts report 'DOWN, HARD' after first attempt.

2009-01-16 Thread Marc Powell
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 ar

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts report 'DOWN, HARD' after first attempt.

2009-01-16 Thread Jonathan Call
> -Original Message- > From: Patrick Morris [mailto:patrick.mor...@hp.com] > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:40 AM > To: Jonathan Call > Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts report 'DOWN, HARD' after first attempt

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts report 'DOWN, HARD' after first attempt.

2009-01-16 Thread Patrick Morris
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Jonathan Call wrote: > I am running a distributed monitoring system using Nagios 2.11 on > FreeBSD 6.3. I use NSCA to send host and services events to the central > server from the slave servers and have always had the following problem: > > A distributed server notices a ho

[Nagios-users] Hosts report 'DOWN, HARD' after first attempt.

2009-01-16 Thread Jonathan Call
I am running a distributed monitoring system using Nagios 2.11 on FreeBSD 6.3. I use NSCA to send host and services events to the central server from the slave servers and have always had the following problem: A distributed server notices a host service is "non-Ok" and fires off check-host-alive.