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Hello,

Please tell me in easy way what is the difference between hard state and soft state. thanks

Here's the official documentation:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... types.html

The official documentation includes all of the cases in which HARD/SOFT states are triggered. There's nothing much shorter that is also comprehensive.

In brief:
SOFT states: When a problem is detected, but the number of times that problem has been detected is less than the max_check_attempts directive.
HARD states: When a problem is detected and the number of times that problem has been detected exceeds the max_check_attempts directive.

Thanks @mcapra

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