Delay before pageing/e-mailing

[Jason Martin]

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Those parameters can be specified at the service-level; by no means do 
they have to affect all devices. I suspect you are using the 'generic 
service' as the only template, but recall that you can override any of the 
parameters of the generic service template at any lower level.

- -Jason Martin

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Greg Redder wrote:

> 
> 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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