notification_interval seems to be ignored

[Zembower, Kevin]

Andreas, thanks for your response. My notification_interval is set to 0,
so theoretically it should send me either no repeated notifications, or
a notification every 5 minutes, my normal_check_interval. I triggered an
ambient temperature warning and let it run for an hour and 42 minutes.
The time between notifications was 10, 26, 5, 12, 5, 5 and 25 minutes.
In each case, the temperature had changed from the previous
notification.

The only definition of is_volatile was in the
generic-service_nagios2.cfg files, where it's set to 0. I've now
included it explicitly in the service definition for my ambient
temperature monitor. I'll let you know if this makes a difference.

Thanks, again, for your help.

-Kevin



iginal Message-----
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 1:02 PM
To: Zembower, Kevin
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] notification_interval seems to be ignored

Zembower, Kevin wrote:
> Still trying to investigate why the notification_interval seems to be
> ignored on my alert based on the ambient temperature in my server
room.
> 

It's not, but nagios only attempts to send notifications when it has
performed a check, afair. If you set notification_interval to lower
than your normal_check_interval, will it then send notifications with
intervals matching normal_check_interval?

> One thought that I had was that the temperature was changing between
> alerts, even though it was still in the critical or warning state.
Would
> this cause repeated notifications to be sent out?

Only if is_volatile is set for the service.

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