warning: notification interval less than check interval

[lyle]

On our XI 2009R1.3G installed on Centos 5.5, I get Warning messages in nagios.log saying "Service xxx on host yyy has a notification interval less than it's check interval".

I have to admit to installing XI, then doing the config by copying some of our config files from Core 3.0.3 over to the static directory. But I don't see these errors happening over on the Core install.

When I track down the service definitions involved with the warning, they all have:
normal_check_interval=180
retry_check_interval=10

In our template host definitions for our generic-hosts, we do have:
notification_interval=30

I guess I can see where it doesn't make sense to re-notify the contact before you recheck the service, but is this something that 3.0.3 didn't care about.

If you think this is what's causing the warnings, I guess I'll reduce the normal_check_intervals on the services that are complaining. Maybe it's a conflict with a notification_interval set somewhere else in XI, though.

Thanks....Lyle

[mguthrie]

The warnings are mostly a "heads up", more than an error message. You can leave it if you want, it won't hurt anything to do so.