extra recovery notifications

[Jasmine Chua]

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haha.. sorry Tim, was busy doing something about host definitions that day. 
Therefore, got mixed up with the options. Tim, you are right about the 
options dont worry. Just follow the docs regarding the options. Do you have a 
snippet of your host dependency definition? 

On Tuesday 17 December 2002 00:43, you wrote:
> Does the "r" option work for you?  I looked at the source code and it seems
> like only "o", "d", and "u" would work.
>
>     else if(!strcmp(variable,"notification_failure_options") ||
> !strcmp(variable,"notification_failure_criteria")){
>       for(temp_ptr=strtok(value,", ");temp_ptr;temp_ptr=strtok(NULL,", ")){
>         if(!strcmp(temp_ptr,"o") || !strcmp(temp_ptr,"up"))
>           temp_hostdependency->fail_notify_on_up=TRUE;
>         else if(!strcmp(temp_ptr,"d") || !strcmp(temp_ptr,"down"))
>           temp_hostdependency->fail_notify_on_down=TRUE;
>         else if(!strcmp(temp_ptr,"u") || !strcmp(temp_ptr,"unreachable"))
>           temp_hostdependency->fail_notify_on_unreachable=TRUE;
>         else{
> #ifdef DEBUG1
>           snprintf(temp_buffer,sizeof(temp_buffer)-1,"Error: Invalid
> notification dependency option '%s' in hostdependency
> definition.\n",temp_ptr);
>           temp_buffer[sizeof(temp_buffer)-1]='\x0';
>           write_to_logs_and_console(temp_buffer,NSLOG_CONFIG_ERROR,TRUE);
> #endif
>           return ERROR;
>                 }
>               }
>       temp_hostdependency->have_notification_dependency_options=TRUE;
>             }
>
> -Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Byrne, Tim
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:40 AM
> To: 'Jasmine Chua'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] extra recovery notifications
>
>
> I tried to add the "r" as you suggested, but then Nagios fails it's
> pre-flight check with "Could not add object property".  The documentation
> seems to suggest that the only valid notification_failure_criteria are "o",
> "d", "u", and "n".  Interestingly using "n" also makes Nagios fail it's
> pre-flight.
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#hostdependency
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> -Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jasmine Chua [mailto:jasmine.chua at securecirt.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 5:38 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Byrne, Tim
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] extra recovery notifications
>
>
> You have to specify d,u,r for your notifcation_failure_criteria then
> recovery
> notification will be supressed so you will not get notification for both.
> Nagios will still send a notification recovery for both if you did not
> specify (r) because host A depends on host B, if host B recovers, host A
> recovers as well.
>
> On Saturday 14 December 2002 07:13, Byrne, Tim wrote:
> > This doesn't seem right to me.
> >
> > If I set up two hosts, ("A" and "B"), and make "A" have a dependency on
>
> "B"
>
> > with notification_failure_criteria as "d,u" Nagios correctly suppresses
> > "down" notifications for "A" when "B" is down or unreachable.  However,
> > when they recover, I get a recovery notification for both.  I didn't
> > think Nagios would send a recovery notification for something it didn't
> > send a problem notification for.
> >
> > Sorry if that sounds confusing, but I guess that's the nature of the
> > whole dependency stuff.
> >
> > -Tim
> >
> >
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Jasmine Chua
Security Engineer, SecureCiRT (A SBU of Z-Vance Pte Ltd)
http://www.securecirt.com
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