Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

[C. Bensend]

I can't seem to parse "It doesn't make sense to get a recovery
notification for something you never knew was a problem."

Are you saying that since Nagios doesn't consider an unknown a
problem, it won't send a recovery?  Because it does...  And in
this case, I certainly want to know when a service having a
monitoring issue (unknown) recovers.

Not sure what you meant there.

Thanks!

Benny


> 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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