Status returning to normal ?

[Brian Ipsen]

Hi!

 Example - Something critical has happendend on a host (or router) - which
initiates a snmp trap. The trap is received by snmptrapd on the nagios host,
and processed as an external/passive service-check - setting the service to
warning or critical. If no further traps are received within 2 minutes (and
the check interval is 2 minutes) - will the status for that service fall
back top OK - or will it remain in state warning/critical (depending on the
submitted result) ? I can not depend on the device to send another trap to
tell me, that things are OK again (that is why I need nagios to make an
alert - and then the status should go back to OK, because otherwise I'll not
be notified next time a snmp trap is received). But the right way is
probbaly to define the service as Volatile.

Regards,

/Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
> Sent: 12. december 2002 17:07
> To: 'Brian Ipsen'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Status returning to normal ?
>
>
> I'm not exactly sure I understand what you're asking.
>
> On the one hand you're asking for a service check to reset to OK after a
> period of time (depending on how you define 'period of time, this is the
> default behaviour).
>
> On the other hand it appears you're asking that if the next check returns
> and OK, to set the status back to OK, but still require that you manually
> submit an OK.  (This confuses me.)
>
> If I may speculate wildly for a moment....  If you're primarily interested
> in receiving alerts based on the (critical) status of the SNMP traps, you
> could set max_check_attempts=1.  Also take a look at the is_volatile
> directive:
>
> http://your_nagios_server/nagios/docs/volatileservices.html
>
> HTH.
>
> jc
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Ipsen [mailto:Brian.Ipsen at andebakken.dk]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:21 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Status returning to normal ?
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> >  Is it somehow possible to put a (passive) service-check back
> > into normal/OK
> > state after a given period of time ?? The reason for my
> > question is that I'd
> > like an alert in case a special SNMP trap is received (and
> > processed through
> > external/passive checking) - but if no trap is received to
> > put the service
> > back into OK state, then the warning/error will not disappear unless I
> > manually submit an OK-result.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > /Brian
> >
> >
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