Re: [Nagios-users] Escalate after X warnings or criticals

2009-11-08 Thread Neil Ramsay
Hi Martin, The escalation_options don't take the state into consideration during the notification count. So if you have an escalate rule on the 4th notification and only escalate on Critical in the escalation_options then following scenario is can occur: You have 3 warning notifications and the

Re: [Nagios-users] Configuring Serce Dependencies in Nagios 3.1.2

2009-10-27 Thread Neil Ramsay
Hi Mirza, From Building a Monitoring Infrastructure With Nagios by David Josephen pg. 71 Before Nagios checks the state of a service, it first checks the state of all the services that the service depends upon (its parents). If all of those services are okay, Nagios proceeds to check the child

[Nagios-users] Escalation notification count and state change problem

2009-10-26 Thread Neil Ramsay
Hi, I've searched and found similar posts but unfortunately no replies to this type of problem. I'd expect this to be a common problem but maybe I've misread the documentation. On Nagios 3.2.0 we have service notifications set to go out for Warning and for Critical states to an email address