Delayed notification

[Greg Vickers]

Dave,

I can give you two solutions, neither of which you may want to implement :P

1. Tell Nagios to log soft state changes (log_service_retries=<0/1> in your 
nagios.cfg) which will result in your history containing all events, and 
modify your services definition so that a service won't move to a hard 
state (and generate notifications) until your definition of 'some time' 
e.g. normal_check_interval 5, retry_check_interval 5, max_check_attempts 3 
- means that a service will be checked every five minutes, when it first 
fails, it will then stay in that soft state for the next 15 minutes ('some 
time' later) then move to a hard state and generate notifications.

2. Use service escalations for your contacts. (See Object Configuration, 
Service Escalation Definitions) e.g. If you want to generate an email on 
the first hard state, then send a page when that hard state remains for 15+ 
minutes, this is possible by defining a contact for email for the first 
hard state, then when the hard state persists for 15+ minutes, escalate the 
notification to a contact that can be paged.

GL,
Greg

At 12:57 PM 01/12/2003, Dave Close wrote:
>I apologize if I'm just blind or dense. I've tried to find the answer to
>my question in the Nagios documentation, but that which came with the
>program and that on the Web. I've also searched the list archives. But I
>may not have a good search term...
>
>I would like to delay paging until an event has occurred more than once
>without an intervening recovery. That is, if Nagios checks a host or
>service every five minutes, when it finds a problem, it sends notice by
>email on the first occurrence, but it does not send a page until the
>third consecutive problem.
>
>I'm finding a lot of transient issues. They happen but recover in just a
>few minutes. I do want Nagios to detect the problems and log them, for
>the record. I just don't want to bother with a page unless the problem
>continues for some time.
>
>Is there some way to do this?
>
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