Alert on failure

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jivetolkein
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Alert on failure

Post by jivetolkein »

Hi All,

New to Host Monitor, but I come from a Nagios background, so I have a question I can't seem to find in the FAQs / manual

In Nagios theres is a concept of hard and soft failure - an example shows it best:

I have Service A I check every 10 minutes. A check fails, so I can specify that Nagios recheck this 3 time at 1 minute intervals rather than the 'normal' 10 minute gaps to be sure that the service is down and not just obscured by a network glitch or something.

As far as I can see, in AHM, I can only check for hard failure, so I need to check more often and set the alerts after a few failures - obviously this makes for more traffic. Is this the best way to replicate the checking I'm used too?

Thanks for any input :-)
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Re: Alert on failure

Post by KS-Soft Europe »

jivetolkein wrote:I have Service A I check every 10 minutes. A check fails, so I can specify that Nagios recheck this 3 time at 1 minute intervals rather than the 'normal' 10 minute gaps to be sure that the service is down and not just obscured by a network glitch or something.

As far as I can see, in AHM, I can only check for hard failure, so I need to check more often and set the alerts after a few failures - obviously this makes for more traffic. Is this the best way to replicate the checking I'm used too?
You may use "Change test interval" action. http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... etInterval
This action allows changing the test time interval. In addition to the common action parameters choose one of the options:

* Restore original value - restores the original test time interval that was defined by user using Test Propetries dialog
* Set to HH:MM:SS - set interval to the specific value
* Set to N% of the current value - increases or decreases the current test time interval by the specified amount of times.

Regards,
Max
jivetolkein
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Post by jivetolkein »

Great, thanks - I'll check it out

Quickest response for support I've ever seen.... :-D
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