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. ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 ----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] 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
