general notifications setup question.

[Jeff McKeon]

Ok,  thanks to the help of several people on this list I've got nagios
monitoring all the UPS's in my data center.  I've got an 8 port serial
card in my nagios server that connects to each of my 7 ups's.  So I have
7 check_ups services set up directly on my nagios machine.

The issue I have is this.  My sys admin has a pager that get's paged
with notifications from nagios.  I only have the pager set to get
critical pages because if it received every warning, he'd woken up all
night for non critical issues. 

A UPS going to battery power however is a critical issue and time
sensitive so I DO want these warning notification to be sent to his
pager.  Is there an elegant way to do this?

Also, I'm not sure I fully understand the -w and -c settings for
check_ups.  I know they are the number of seconds for warning state and
critical state but what determines a warning state and a critical state?

If I have it set for -w 30 and -c 120 does that mean that when the UPS
goes to battery power and stays there for 30 seconds, its a warning
state?  Then once it's been on battery for > 120 seconds it goes to
critical?  Also what does this translate into in terms of when the
notifications actually go out.  Is it 30 seconds (for warning
notification) and 5 tries?  And if there are 1 minute between tries that
would put the first warning sent out at roughtly 5.5 minutes after going
to battery power?

A lot of questions I know, thanks for any help you can give...

Thanks,

Jeff





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