force notification ?

[Ethan Galstad]

On 5 Mar 2003 at 15:37, Joerg.Krueger at alcatel.de wrote:

> Is it possible to force a notification, e.g. by an external command, even
> if the conditions for a notification are not met ?
> I would like to generate a notification everytime I find a pattern in a
> logfile containing a descriptive text regarding the log message. My idea
> was to define a service which accepts passive check results. The  logfile
> scanner submits the results as passive check results locally by an external
> command or remotely by nsca.
> This works in general, but only the first event leads to a notification.
> All subsequent events will not be notified since no status transition took
> place. You could fake this mechanism by sending an OK check result after
> each WARNING or CRITICAL, but isn't there a smarter way ?
> 
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen/Best Regards
> Joerg Krueger

Try setting the is_volative directive for the service to 1.  This 
should cause Nagios to send a notification every time a non-OK event 
is received.

Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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