Delay before pageing/e-mailing

[Greg Redder]

Jeff, Jason,

You both suggested I look at retry_check_interval and max_check_attempts.
However, as *I* understand it that will affect all devices.
Unfortunately, we have various groups for which we wish to delay the
pageing/emailing.  Some groups we wish to wait 15 minutes, others 5
minutes.

Also, if the device comes back up in the 15 minutes, we don't want to be
paged. Sorry, I wasn't clear about that.

THank you --Greg Redder


On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, jeff vier wrote:

> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:45:33 -0600
> From: jeff vier <jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com>
> To: redder at yuma.acns.colostate.edu
> Cc: nagios-users <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Delay before pageing/e-mailing
>
> What you are describing really doesn't *solve* anything.
>
> Consider what you've stated:
> 1. System has a problem, nagios notices it.
> 2. Page/email goes into a queue
> 3. time passes (15 minutes, as you stated)
> 4. regardless the system state, you get a page.
>
> Why not just adjust the retry_check_interval and max_check_attempts in
> your service definition to suit your application's needs?  An external
> "message delayer" isn't really helping you.
>
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 16:32, Greg Redder wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to get Nagios to pause for a while before it
> > pages/emails us about a problem.  We monitor pings to some devices which
> > aren't that critical, but that we still care about. We're not too worried
> > about them unless they are down (unpingable) for more than 15 minutes.
> >
> > I'm preparing to write a plug-in that waits a specified amount of time
> > before pageing/emailing us when it detects a problem.  However, before I
> > get too carried away, has anyone else already dealt with this problem?
> >
> > Thank you
> > --Greg Redder
> >   Network Analyst
> >   Colorado State University
> >
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Greg Redder                         Academic Computing & Networking Services
Colorado State University, ACNS     Phone:(970)491-7222  FAX:  (970)491-1958
601 S. Howes, Room 625              E-mail: redder at yuma.colostate.edu
Fort Collins, CO 80523       PGP Fprint:299F83B58A72BE7428E064E801749C69FFA537C6
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