Nagios Support Forum

Well, in this case, for virtually all hosts, there's a 1:1 relationship between the host and it's service. [Only one host for only one service.] So, while I'm not exactly sure what's happening - if I look at the history, all the alerts are "service alert" - not hosts. Thus, I'd guess I'm *...

Perhaps this IS whats wrong... So, I see in the host template def that's inherited by this host, the max_check_attempts = 1 But the service is overridden as 3. Does this mean that even though the service is not yet down [3 checks], since max_check_attempts=1 on the *host*, it will alert on a single ...

So, I'm using smokeping to monitor boxes, and I'm using the nagios plugin to query the smokeping RRD's - that all works great. BUT I get warning and critical alerts after only a single warning/critical condition. Under the service, I have set [max_check_attempts 3] - and I was under the belief/assum...

I don't know if anyone has done this - it's a hard topic to search on, and I wasn't able to find anyone who addressed this issue - so i thought I'd post it here. Essentialy the problem I had was: Normally I'd generate three alerts, say every 5 minutes, [This was defined as a service or host escalati...