Israel Brewster wrote: > I need some clarification of how nagios will respond to something I am > trying to do. I have a number of hosts I am monitoring that I want > nagios to note immediately (well, almost) if they go down, but I don't > want to receive a notification unless they stay in a hard down state > for more than, say, 5 minutes. Now if I understand things correctly, I > can accomplish this using host escalations by setting the notification > options on the host to n (none) and the notification interval to 5 > minutes, and then setting up a host escalation with a > first_notification directive of 2. Does this sound correct? > > I have a couple of concerns about this setup. From my reading of the > documentation (correct me if I am wrong), it sounds as though > escalations only change the contact_groups and notification_periods of > the notifications. If I have the notification options of the host set > to n, does the escalation override this? If not, and I set the host > notification options to, say, d,r, then how do I prevent a > notification being sent out immediately when the host goes down? Does > the notification_interval directive even have any effect if the > notification_options are set to none? The last thing I want to do is > try making this change, and end up not being notified at all when a > host goes down for an extended period of time. Thanks. >
You should be able to use "first_notification_delay" for this. I'm not sure which version it's included in, but 3.x will almost certainly have it. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
