Greetings. I'm trying to set up a quick escalation procedure for 3 hosts. Host Down alerts are generated for these hosts on a daily basis due to the load on the first of the 3 items. This particular problem always resolves itself by the time next check happens (causing a host down alert followed by a host up alert 2 minutes later).
What I'd like to do is use an escalation procedure with the first contact being the user "null" I created on my Nagios box for the explicit purpose of directing mail to /dev/null (this works already with a few other contacts). I've already created a "null" contactgroup for this purpose. I'd like the normal alerting process to start again after 15 minutes if the host(s) is still down. This would prevent half a dozen people from being paged daily with what equates to a bogus alert (causing them to slowly but surely stop paying as much attention to the alerts over time). I'm a bit confused on how to implement this though. Here's what I've got so far: define hostescalation{ host_name cmts-1.clr contact_groups isp-net-admins,cmts-admins first_notification 1 notification_interval 15 escalation_period 24x7 escalation_options d,u,r } isp-net-admins and cmts-admins are the normal contactgroups for these hosts. "null" is the contact(group) I want to use for the first 15 minutes before the escalation takes place on these 3 hosts. I'm a little confused on the notification_interval options. My hosts/services are by default running at 180 (minutes). Will the notification_interval in this hostescalation definition override that? I'm not sure if I'm taking the right approach to this or not so I welcome any and all suggestions. I've been reviewing the online docs and have made good headway. I'm stuck at the moment though. Thanks Justin -- Justin Shore, Network Engineer SKT Business Communication Solutions Office: (316) 265-9555 x3217 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ 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