Unknown status, alerts over and over

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Dennis Hopp
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:16 AM
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Unknown status, alerts over and over
> 
> I've had a few servers where the snmp service on them will crash and
so
> the nagios plugins cannot get the status of different services.
Nagios
> will send an alert that the service is "UNKNOWN" which is what I want,
> but then it will send the alert over and over and over and over and
over
> until the snmp service is fixed.  For example I got 75+ messages
> overnight about one servers disk was unknown (the server was fine,
just
> snmp wasn't responding).
> 
> How can I get nagios to send the alert for "UNKNOWN" once and then
send
> a recovery message when the problem is fixed?

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#service

notification_interval: 	This directive is used to define the number of
"time units" to wait before re-notifying a contact that this service is
still in a non-OK state. Unless you've changed the interval_length
directive from the default value of 60, this number will mean minutes.
If you set this value to 0, Nagios will not re-notify contacts about
problems for this service - only one problem notification will be sent
out, unless there has been a state change.

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How do I know if this is privileged or confidential?

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I wasn't the addressee of the message. I guess I shouldn't respond.

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Burning the message now. There are of course other permanently and
publicly archived copies of this e-mail that will remain available as
long as the Internet exists but I guess that's ok.

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Is this official business? How am I supposed to know?

--
Marc


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