Stalking option + notification

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Sivan DERAY
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:52 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Stalking option + notification
> Importance: High
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> Does anybody use Stakling option with active checks?
> 
> 
> 
> I need to be notified when status is critical even if the message for
the
> same service is different between 2 checks. I mean that the status
keep
> being critical.

I haven't used stalking before but my understanding is that it doesn't
have anything to do with notifications at all, just what nagios logs to
nagios.log. Under normal circumstances nagios doesn't use the status
information (text part) reported by the plugin other than to display it
in the gui and in the logs. When you enable stalking, nagios looks at
the status information and if it changes between checks then it will log
the new information. Normally it wouldn't unless the exit code of the
plugin changed (i.e. CRITICAL to OK, etc)

If you want repeat notifications when the status doesn't change, set
your notification_interval appropriately in your service definition.
You'll get notifications whether or not the status information changes.

--
Marc 


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