too many Notifications

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Lalita Drolia
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 7:21 AM
> To: Rob Groome
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] too many Notifications
> 
> 
> I guess setting notification-interval to 0 should solve my issue.
> But I have two more queries-
> 1) sometimes a machine is rebooted on purpose. I would not like to
> receive a notification then. Which means I would like Nagios to wait
for
> 15 minutes before sending out an alert. I guess giving
> max_check_attempts a high value should solve this. But is there any
> other way? And what should be this value ideally to wait for 15
minutes.

For service checks this is pretty straightforward adjusting
retry_check_interval and max_check_attempts. You do not want a
max_check_attempts set that long for host checks with nagios-2.x or
prior. Nagios stops _all_ other processing while hosts are being
checked, up to max_check_attempts, so for 15 minutes nagios would do
nothing but check that host. Using scheduled downtime is the easiest and
preferred way or you could escalations but that gets messier.

> 2) as I mentioned, I have made settings to get an alert only once.
> But is it possible to get an alert for all machines once in a week
too,
> say every Monday morning?

You'd need to create a custom notification script that contained this
logic. Nagios does not have the ability to queue notifications; it'll
call the notification script as soon as they're triggered. Your script
could take those, store them in a file or database, then send them
whenever you chose.

--
Marc

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