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This is more of a curiouity than a problem. Every script I see that is designed to use the Nagios command file uses a format like this: NOW=`date +%s` printf "[%lu] SCHEDULE_FORCED_SVC_CHECK;$1;serial_number;$NOW\n" $NOW > $COMMANDFILE Note that the $NOW variable is used in two places -- o...

You might be able to hack together an event handler to say "if host recovers, schedule this service check": https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/docs/nagioscore/3/en/eventhandlers.html You could then have the script run by your event handler do something like this: NAGIOS_CMD_SO...

Is there some way that I can tell nagios "Maintain the check interval 1440; but, if you see the machine go down and come back up, then force a re-check regardless of the interval" ? No, because by its very nature Nagios will not have any way to know the host went down and then came back u...

I humbly believe you are mistaken. retry_interval, from my understanding, is when the host or service first goes down (" changed to a non-UP state "), it will check again after that many minutes to see if it is still down. For example, I have a check for the last "puppet" run. Pu...

Greetings. Let's say I have a nagios client. It has a scheduled downtime from 8am Monday through 8am Tuesday, and the machine is turned off for the entire duration. There is a service check it performs once per day (check_interval 1440) Let's say the check happens to be scheduled for 8pm. So at 8pm ...