What is use_aggressive_host_checking?

[nook24]

Maybe I'm just missing something but is there a documentation available of what use_aggressive_host_checking is doing? naemon.cfg suggests to check out the source code which is not helpful at all.

The reason i ask is. I created a check plugin like this for my host check:

#!/bin/bash
echo "This host is down"
exit 1

My Host was always current_state=0 Up. It took me two hours to find out that use_aggressive_host_checking=0 was the reason for this, so what the heck is this option about? Tested with Naemon 1.0.7 and 1.0.8.

From the docs: Naemon tries to be smart. Is always Up really that smart? :)

[sni]

well, the reason is that naemon considers warnings as ok for host checks. Consider a Ping which results in a few packets lost so check_ping results in a warning. So Naemon assumes the host is still up, because a host can either be up or down and you either cut the line between ok and warning or warning and critical.

[sni]

But i agree, instead of letting people read the source, we could simply write into the docs, that warnings are considered UP for hosts unless you use this option.

[nook24]

From the docs:

Plugin Return Code	Service State	Host State
0	OK	UP
1	WARNING	UP or DOWN/UNREACHABLE*
2	CRITICAL	DOWN/UNREACHABLE
3	UNKNOWN	DOWN/UNREACHABLE

State 1: UP or DOWN/UNREACHABLE* This sounds like Schrödinger's host state^^

Until now i thought
Host states:
0 = Up
1 = Down
2 = Unreachable

Service states:
0 = Ok
1 = Warning
2 = Critical
3 = Unknown

May be a better name would be use_service_exit_codes_for_host_states instead of use_aggressive_host_checking ?