Delay hostchecks?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Joerg Linge wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2006 20:55 schrieb Fredrik Vöcks:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to delay hostchecks until after you've done all retries
>> stated in the service defintion? If for example a service check fails once
>> Nagios will immediately start doing hostchecks. This is not very good
>> because a short reboot/power failure/ etc will make Nagios send alarms
>> about host being down. Especially bad is this during weekend when people
>> are hired to monitor and get these kind of alarms in the middle of the
>> night.
> [...]
> 
> There will be a new Option in nagios 3.x called  first_notification_delay for 
> Hosts and Services.
> 

The patch was submitted to Nagios 2 and should be available somehwere in 
the mailing-list archives. The patch submitters name is Mathias Sundman. 
We use it in production for all our customers. Although not many use the 
feature, we haven't had any bug-reports regarding the patch, so I assume 
it's safe to use.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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