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hymie
Asked: 2016-09-24 11:25:30 +0800 CST

can nagios adjust its check time based on the status info?

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(I suspect the answer is "No", but I'll ask anyway.)

I have puppet installed on my systems, and puppet runs every half hour. Nagios is checking those puppet logs, also running every half hour, and returns something like this:

OK: Puppet agent "2.7.26" running catalogversion 1474549502, and last executed at Fri 23 Sep 2016 18:04:17 GMT

The problem is, if puppet checks this service at (let's say) 18:25, and returns the above response, then I won't see any reference to the expected 18:34 puppet run until nagios checks again at 18:55.

I would really like it if nagios could look at the status info, see that this machine ran puppet at 18:04, and reschedule its next check to occur, say, five minutes after the expected next-run.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

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1 Answers

  1. I don't believe you can use the value of the return to actually set the next check. Nagios has two time paramaters governing check times - check_interval and retry_interval. check_interval is used when the service is up and retry_interval is used when the service is not up. So in a sense you can use the return code to adjust the retry time, but not to a specific clock time.

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