Re: [Nagios-users] Howto force a notification (before the schedul ed renotify time) for a down host/critical service ?

[Ton Voon]

On 12 Jul 2006, at 18:56, Tedman Eng wrote: For instance, assume a service has a timeperiod of 05:00 to 23:00 and contacts have timeperiods of 24 hours. If the service fails at 3am, Nagios will schedule the next check at 05:00. If it still fails at 05:00, contacts will be notified. That makes sense, that's how it's designed.  If ANY timeperiod filter fails (service or contact timeperiod), the notification is not sent.  When a service renotifies, it will check the filters again during that attempt. And again during the next re-notify attempt, and so on. My understanding from the docs is that passing a service timeperiod acts differently than passing a contact timeperiod. Once a service timeperiod passes, the clock starts ticking for the next notification interval. So the two scenarios are not equivalent. However, the converse is not true (and is arguably the more likely   scenario). Assume the service is 24 hours, but the contacts have a   timeperiod of 05:00 to 23:00. If the service fails at 3am, the   service is considered to be notified, but the filter for sending   notifications to contacts will fail. Contacts will not get   notification unless there is a notification retry. Same as above.  The 3am notification failed a timeperiod filter, so the next renotification will test the filter again, and again, and so forth until one of the re-notification attempts passes all timeperiod filters. But this is the situation Stanley is asking for: how to get notifications of errors when a contact's timeperiod becomes available. Let's say this: if the failure happened at 3am, the contact is not within timeperiod and *no* notification interval is set. The notification will never happen. I don't think this is right. I would expect, possibly naively, that I would get all the notifications, but only during the times I want. Maybe you just should always set a notification interval. But it can't be too frequent because it would be annoying, but then that creates a longer lag time... I did start by saying I didn't have any answers :) Ton http://www.altinity.com T: +44 (0)870 787 9243 F: +44 (0)845 280 1725 Skype: tonvoon

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