Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

C. Bensend benny at bennyvision.com
Tue Jun 11 20:14:28 CEST 2013


Yep, I've had that one enabled for quite some time.  :)


> There is workaround this is how I fixed in our environment
> use_large_installation_tweaks=1 in nagios.cfg see whether this helps this
> removes the warning for you
>
> Regards
> Sunil
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Justin T Pryzby
> <justinp at norchemlab.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:12:23AM -0500, C. Bensend wrote:
>> > I can't seem to parse "It doesn't make sense to get a recovery
>> > notification for something you never knew was a problem."
>>
>> see the original language here:
>>
>> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/notifications.html
>> Note: Notifications about host or service recoveries are only sent out
>> if a notification was sent out for the original problem. It doesn't
>> make sense to get a recovery notification for something you never knew
>> was a problem.
>>
>> And:
>> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/escalations.html
>> If, after three problem notifications, a recovery notification is sent
>> out for the service, who gets notified?  The recovery is actually the
>> fourth notification that gets sent out.  However, the escalation code
>> is  smart enough to realize that only those people who were notified
>> about  the problem on the third notification should be notified about
>> the  recovery.  In this case, the nt-admins and managers contact
>> groups would be notified of the recovery.
>>
>> (Although, I believe I've either misunderstood the implications of
>> that statement, or run into misbehaviours in that area myself...)
>>
>>
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