Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?
C. Bensend
benny at bennyvision.com
Tue Jun 11 20:24:23 CEST 2013
> 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...)
Ah. Well, yes. :) I believe those statements are referring to
the filters that Nagios uses to determine whether or not to send
a notification at all. *That's* not an issue here, the notification
goes out, just like it should.
*My* question is why the sanity check thinks that configuration
doesn't make sense. I think the answer is probably something to
the effect of: "I don't know why anyone would want that, so warn
about it." I don't want to put words in the mouth of any of the
developers that may have touched it, though, so I'm just guessing.
I just want to make sure this is a case of Nagios maybe not giving
the right advice in its sanity check, and *not* that there's something
behind the scenes that I'm not aware of that might actually cause a
problem. If it's the former, maybe we can get it adjusted for the
next release. If it's the latter, I hope someone will step forth with
the ClueBat 5000(tm) and give me a good thump. :)
Thanks, everyone!
Benny
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