On Dec 15, 2007, at 12:24 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > 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. >
Thanks for the info. That sounds like exactly what I am looking for, but from what I can tell it is not available in version 2.7 (which is what I am running) - at any rate, I couldn't find it in the documentation. I plan on moving to 3 as soon after it is released as I can manage (and my boss allows), but for now I need a solution that works with 2.7 ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 ----------------------------------------------- > -- > 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
