Martin Merlin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 17:03, Roderick A. Anderson > <raand...@cyber-office.net> wrote: >> My Nagios foo must leave a lot to be desired. 8-( >> >> I have not been able to figure out the correct combination of service >> definition settings to get a check to go CRITICAL:HARD on the first try >> (no SOFT alerts), and keep sending alerts (every five minutes) until the >> check/alert clears. >> >> Either the complete answer or a clue-stick whack (the settings I should >> be looking at) would be greatly appreciated. > > From http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service
Thanks Martin. No sure if I'd made it to this page. "The Book" is a little brief in it's description. > max_check_attempts:This directive is used to define the number of > times that Nagios will retry the service check command if it returns > any state other than an OK state. Setting this value to 1 will cause > Nagios to generate an alert without retrying the service check again. OK. This makes sense. (Whack one!) > notification_interval: This directive is used to define the number of > "time units" to wait before re-notifying a contact that this service > is still in a non-OK state. Unless you've changed the interval_length > directive from the default value of 60, this number will mean minutes. > If you set this value to 0, Nagios will not re-notify contacts about > problems for this service - only one problem notification will be sent > out. This too makes sense and again "The Book" is a little too brief in it's description. > This should be enough to get you up and running :-) I'll try it today. > If you still have problems, post your config to the list. I will if needed but it has nothing out of the ordinary. Uses the 'generic_service' template from a CentOS 5.x install of Nagios 3.0.6 plus check_interval of 5 (minutes). Nothing else special. (3.2.1 from Rpmforge will be coming in a week or so.) Again thanks, Rod -- > > Regards > Martin Melin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ 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