multiple notification/escalation definitions
Jeff Williams
jeffwilliams05 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 17:52:56 CET 2006
I checked again in all the documentation under advanced topics and
escalation and I don't see anything about this. Is it in there and I am just
missing it?
On 3/6/06, Jeff Williams <jeffwilliams05 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if I'm missing something or thinking about this
> incorrectly. I have some hosts that have services and their contact
> groups already defined like so:
>
> define service{
> use generic-service
> host_name vader
> service_description NTP
> is_volatile 0
> check_period 24x7
> retry_check_interval 1
> contact_groups oncall,ulsysadmins,dba
> notification_interval 5
> notification_period 24x7
> notification_options w,u,c,r
> check_command check_ntp
> }
>
> I also have an escalation for this service:
>
> define serviceescalation{
> host_name vader
> service_description NTP
> first_notification 2
> last_notification 2
> notification_interval 5
> contact_groups oncall
> }
>
> define serviceescalation{
> host_name vader
> service_description NTP
> first_notification 3
> last_notification 4
> notification_interval 5
> contact_groups oncall,backup
> }
> define serviceescalation{
> host_name vader
> service_description NTP
> first_notification 5
> last_notification 0
> notification_interval 0
> contact_groups oncall,backup
> }
>
> What I'm wondering is if I can add another contact for this service
> that gets notified after 30 minutes, but only gets notified once.
> Ideally I would like to be able to do this as easily as possible and
> for an entire group of servers and for multiple services, if possible.
> We are migrating from big brother and while big brother is not nearly
> as complex and functional as Nagios, it can be done in big brother
> with probably one line. Am I missing something though? Can a service
> be defined twice? Or can I define it in an escalation that includes
> the entire hostgroup that I want? Thanks in advance.
>
> Jeff
>
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