Waiting longer than one polling failure to alert

["Mark Stoltzfus" <mark.stoltzfus (at) pmigroup.com>]

     My apologies if this is covered in the docs or in past discussions,
my google-fu hasn't come through for me on this one.  We're running
4.1.2p1, and we have several troublesome hosts that, for whatever
reason, are constantly experiencing periodic disconnects with the hobbit
server.  I'm not too concerned about the disconnects (we have some new
firewalls that are probably to blame, and by all other indications, the
hosts and services are fine), but we're constantly getting alerts.  Is
there any way to make hobbit alert on a host or service, only after it's
failed two or three times in a row?

Thanks in advance,

Mark