Nagios Support Forum

Folkerd Koning wrote:
> When actively checking hosts, if a host check fails (and goes into a soft
> error state) how soon will the check be rescheduled? I've tried to get
> Nagios to delay the next checks, as I thought that the host_check_retry
> value would be the value in minutes to delay the retry, but it looks to me
> Nagios will continue to check the host as soon as it can, once a check fails
> (up to the max check count).
>
> Is there something I misconfigured or is this a bug?

Host rechecks are performed serially, back-to-back. The concept of
delays between host rechecks has been implemented in the Nagios 3
per-alpha CVS code. With Nagios 3.x, host rechecks will work in a
similar fashion to service rechecks. Hope that helps.

>
> Regards,
> Folkerd H. Koning
> Email Administrator
> City of Fort Wayne,Indiana
> County of Allen, Indiana
> Tel: (260) 427-5166
>



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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