Nagios service check interval based on host type

After rereading Nagios doc, what I need is implied inheritance from host parameters.

I found that old post on nagios-dev list

Unfortunately it has not been implemented into Nagios source code.

I know what I have to do now :-)

Since the check_interval and retry_interval are attributes of a service check, they cannot be set per-host like you want. (Don't use "normal_check_interval"... that's Nagios 2 syntax).

To do this, make multiple hostgroups; one for "critical" one for "normal". Then create 2 service definitions for each service you want to check, with different check_interval, retry_interval, and/or max_check_attempts settings, and assign to the hostgroups.

You can make this config cleaner by using a template for the common settings, and just change the intervals in the actual service defs. See the inheritance docs for more info.