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Hello,

I have a service I am monitoring. Under check settings, I have the following values below
Check interval - 5 min
Retry interval - 1 min
Max check attempts - 5

Just want to make sure I understand, Lets say the service is down, after the 5 minute check, it goes into retry for another 5 minutes and then sends the alert totaling 10 minutes?

Or if the service is down, after 5 minutes, retry again in a minute, gives it another 5 minutes for 5 attempts making this total 25 minutes?


I have a request to change the monitoring to every 60 minutes and need clarification on the check settings. Thank you for your time.

Check interval - 5 min
Retry interval - 1 min
Max check attempts - 5

Nagios xi will check every 5 minutes (check_interval), if a problem is detected it will recheck it every 1 minute (retry_interval) 5 times (max_check_attempts) before it reaches a HARD state where a notification will be sent.

So once it detects a problem it will be retry_interval times max_check_attempts before the notification will be sent. So in this case 5 minutes after the problem is detected.

So based on what you're trying to do you would set the check_interval to 60. That way it only checks every 60 minutes. But if a problem is detected it would be retry_interval times max_check_attempts before the notification will be sent (so 5 minutes lateer in this case).

Please see here for details:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... uling.html
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tions.html

Let us know if you have any questions.

ssax wrote:Check interval - 5 min
Retry interval - 1 min
Max check attempts - 5

Nagios xi will check every 5 minutes (check_interval), if a problem is detected it will recheck it every 1 minute (retry_interval) 5 times (max_check_attempts) before it reaches a HARD state where a notification will be sent.

So once it detects a problem it will be retry_interval times max_check_attempts before the notification will be sent. So in this case 5 minutes after the problem is detected.

So based on what you're trying to do you would set the check_interval to 60. That way it only checks every 60 minutes. But if a problem is detected it would be retry_interval times max_check_attempts before the notification will be sent (so 5 minutes lateer in this case).

Please see here for details:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... uling.html
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tions.html

Let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you!

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