Short Notification interval and escalations

[Andrew Laden]

Heya all

 I am trying to implement the following with host notification.

1: No notification for the 1st 5 mintes that a host goes down.
2: An email to our helpdesk at 5 minutes
3: No more email for 30 minutes
4: an email to system supervisors after 30 minutes. (along with helpdesk)
5: emails every 6 hours thereafter,

My original plan was..

Define the host with with notification_interval 5, and the contact group a
dummy group with no email notification.

Set a host escalation 
 first_notification 2
 last_notification 3
 notification_interval 30
 contact_groups helpdesk

Set a host escalation 
 first_notification 3
 last_notification 0
 notification_interval 360
 contact_groups helpdesk,supervisors

The problem I forsee is that I can never override the notification interval
5 in the original host definition. Nagios always chooses the shortest
notification interval for the notification series, and you can not specify
first and last notification in the host definition.

Anyone see a way to do this?

-Andrew

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