Re: [Nagios-users] Checks arent frequent enough

[Eric F C. <ec...@se...>]

On Dec 28, 2007, at 9:38 AM, zack kenton wrote:

> Hi list
>
> Will probably seem like a stupid and/or easy question, but my checks  
> arent frequent enough. I have a disk health check and it told me  
> there was a bad disk on a server one day after the server crashed  
> from this bad disk. I know this has to do with normal check interval  
> and retry check interval. Take for example normal_check_interval  
> 300...where is it defined that 300 is seconds and not minutes? And  
> is retry_check_interval the amount of time it checks after a failed  
> check? Should i prioritize my services and comb through each one and  
> set the important ones to every minute and less important ones to  
> like once or twice a day. Just trying to get a better grasp on the  
> whole check frequency. thanks



Zack,

The interval is in minutes, not seconds.  retry_check_interval is how  
often should nagios check, after the first failure.  There is lots of  
information about this in the online documentation.

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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks