we are monitoring servers with Icinga2. It is not critical for us that a host of a specific host group is down for 5 hours. Is it possible to configure a delay for changing the host down state? It would be perfect if the state changes to warning when the host is down and to critical when the hosti down for 5 hours.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
To change the state of a host after 5 hours, you can play with the max_check_attempts check_interval and retry_interval parameters.
In your question you don't specify if you want to be notified after 5 hours or if you want your host change state only after 5 hours.
For example, you can edit those paramters to have :
max_check_attempts=5
check_interval=1h
retry_interval=1h
Like this, when your host is down, icinga will retry each 1 hour (retry_intervall) 5 times (max_check_attempts). After, 5 hours you will be notified. But in inciga2 console, your host will be screened as down since the first hour (check_interval).
In this case, you must specify check_intervall=5h and what you want in the others to be notified after 5 hours.
