I can't seem to parse "It doesn't make sense to get a recovery notification for something you never knew was a problem."
Are you saying that since Nagios doesn't consider an unknown a problem, it won't send a recovery? Because it does... And in this case, I certainly want to know when a service having a monitoring issue (unknown) recovers. Not sure what you meant there. Thanks! Benny > This is by design, and it is only a warning message. The config is valid > and should work as you intended. It doesn't make sense to get a recovery > notification for something you never knew was a problem. "Unknowns" are > not > considered problems in Nagios logic. > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Chris Beattie <cbeat...@geninfo.com> > wrote: > >> On 6/7/2013 9:28 AM, C. Bensend wrote:> >> > Not real sure why Nagios doesn't think that's a valid config - I >> > want a contact that will receive only UNKNOWN alerts for services. >> >> Have you tried giving that contact the extra options Nagios wants, and >> then defining a service escalation for that contact with the >> escalation_options directive set to u? >> >> -- >> -Chris >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: >> >> Build for Windows Store. >> >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev_______________________________________________ > 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 -- "The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.'" -- George Carlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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
