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[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Sunday, November 30, 2003 6:57 PM -0800 Dave Close <dave at compata.com> 
wrote:

> I apologize if I'm just blind or dense. I've tried to find the answer to
> my question in the Nagios documentation, but that which came with the
> program and that on the Web. I've also searched the list archives. But I
> may not have a good search term...
>
> I would like to delay paging until an event has occurred more than once
> without an intervening recovery. That is, if Nagios checks a host or
> service every five minutes, when it finds a problem, it sends notice by
> email on the first occurrence, but it does not send a page until the
> third consecutive problem.
>
> I'm finding a lot of transient issues. They happen but recover in just a
> few minutes. I do want Nagios to detect the problems and log them, for
> the record. I just don't want to bother with a page unless the problem
> continues for some time.
>
> Is there some way to do this?

Why not use the escalation method, and have nagios send email on the first 
problem, and then 'escalate' on the third occurrence to the pager?

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
ITSS/TSS/Infrastructure Operations
Stanford University
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