Notifications or host checks stopped working

[Andrew Laden]

> Nagios should increment notification number at every 
> notification attempt, even though it's blocked by 
> timeperiods. It should also up the notification number even 
> if no notifications are being sent due to 
> notification_options and suchlike. This is because of 
> escalations. If it doesn't it's a bug and should be weathered 
> at the nagios-devel@ list, where patches and such can be 
> discussed without people accidentally mistaking them for 
> configuration files.

Since I am not on that list (and have no desire to get into the inner
workings of nagios development) Can you do me a favor and transition this
over to there?

> 
> > Sometimes you can have serivces that are out of band that 
> may be monitored.
> > Ie. I want to monitor the console connection to the host, 
> which is out 
> > of band. That connection may stay up, even though the 
> network may go 
> > down and all meaningful services go down. I would want the 
> host to be 
> > unreachable, even though the console service may still be 
> up, else I 
> > will get lots of notifications that I don't need.
> > 
> 
> The traditional solution to this problem is to create two 
> hosts - one for each physical route to the host. Then it's 
> just a matter of configuring the correct services for each host.
> 

Traditional, but counterintuitive. The console is part of the host. To have
to treat it as a separate host object, aside from doubling the number of
hosts, adds complexity in that the console errors are no longer attached to
the host they came from. I have to double all my work. Assign contacts
twice. Schedule downtime twice, etc. 


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