flexible downtime behaviour

[nwieland]

We just noticed that if you put a host under flexible scheduled downtime, but nagios doesn't pick up the host as down (as in reboot happening between two checks), the host will actually stay under downtime indefinitely. Is this working as intended? I had expected that if it received a host down trigger, it would start the specified downtime duration, but if it did not, it would cancel the downtime after end of the flexible downtime window.

[lmiltchev]

What are the values for your "Max. check attempts", "Retry interval" and "Check interval" under "Check Settings" tab for the particular host in the Nagios Core Config Manager?

[lmiltchev]

If you are bringing the host down for a very short period of time (for example, just rebooting), fixed downtime will work probably better than the flexible downtime. It is intended to work this way.

[nwieland]

What are the values for your "Max. check attempts", "Retry interval" and "Check interval" under "Check Settings" tab for the particular host in the Nagios Core Config Manager?

5/1/5

[nwieland]

If you are bringing the host down for a very short period of time (for example, just rebooting), fixed downtime will work probably better than the flexible downtime. It is intended to work this way.

ok, we'll stick with fixed then, thanks!

[lmiltchev]

You are welcome!