Re: [Nagios-users] Question about host checks

[Simone F. <s.f...@al...>]

Marc Powell ha scritto:
> On Nov 27, 2008, at 2:36 AM, Simone Felici wrote:
> 
>> Good morning.
>> With time_interval do you mean interval_lenght?
> 
> I did, sorry about that.
> 
>> I've set it to "1". In this way I've set all checks in seconds,  
>> because I need for certain services a retry interval of 30seconds.
> 
> Good to know.
> 
>> Here additional infos:
>>
>> ########################################
>> #          NAGIOS STATUS FILE
>> #
>> # THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED
>> # BY NAGIOS.  DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!
>> ########################################
>>
>> <<cut>>
>>
>> hoststatus {
>>        host_name=<<MY-WINDOWS-EXAMPLE-SERVER>>
>>        modified_attributes=3
>>        check_command=check-host-alive
>>        check_period=24hx7
>>        notification_period=24hx7
>>        check_interval=5.000000
> 
> Nagios is configured to check this host every 5 seconds (5 x  
> interval_length). If you meant this to be 5 minutes, the value should  
> be 300.
> 
> -
> Marc

Thank's Marc, but let me understood... Should Nagios perform host checks only if needed?
I.e. if a service goes critical or change state?
Or are true both questions?

Simon