Notification Limits

[Andreas Ericsson]

Daniel maher wrote:
> If you choose to release a patch for "max_notifications", please let
> the list know.  For my part, I certainly think it'd be handy! :)
> 

It'll be on nagios-devel for testing by those who can fix possible 
problems first. I haven't really gotten started yet though so don't hold 
your breath.

> 
> Daniel Maher System Engineer ACE TECHNOLOGY INC.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se]
>  Sent: March 30, 2005 2:45 AM To:
> 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]
> Notification Limits
> 
> Brett Stevens wrote:
> 
>> Hi guys, Ive looked but cant seem to find anything on limiting the
>> total number of nofifications that can go out on a particular
>> service or host failure. We are switching over from ipsentry and it
>> has this limit so if by chance a service fails in the middle of the
>> night we wont ge wacked with a huge sms bill by limiting the amount
>> of sms we send.
>> 
> 
> 
> Set notification_interval to 0 for one notification per event. Do
> some magic with escalations to get more but not zero.
> 
> In fact, I think I'll hack up a max_notifications variable for hosts
> and services. It seems overkill to use escalations for just limiting
> them to a specific number.
> 
> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> Brett Stevns'
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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