Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

[Travis Runyard]

This is by design, and it is only a warning message. The config is valid
and should work as you intended. It doesn't make sense to get a recovery
notification for something you never knew was a problem. "Unknowns" are not
considered problems in Nagios logic.


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Chris Beattie <cbeattie at geninfo.com> wrote:

> On 6/7/2013 9:28 AM, C. Bensend wrote:>
> >     Not real sure why Nagios doesn't think that's a valid config - I
> > want a contact that will receive only UNKNOWN alerts for services.
>
> Have you tried giving that contact the extra options Nagios wants, and
> then defining a service escalation for that contact with the
> escalation_options directive set to u?
>
> --
> -Chris
>
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