Antwort: How to not send out first servicenotifications?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc Haber
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:53 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: How to not send out first
> servicenotifications?
> 
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:10:56AM +0200, srunschke at abit.de wrote:
> > nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 19.10.2006
> 11:04:19:
> > > I am monitoring some hosts on the Internet for informational
reasons.
> > > Since these hosts quite frequently have failed services, I'd like
my
> > > Nagios to refrain from notifying me if a service is down at the
first
> > > notification. Subsequent notifications, however, should be sent
out.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to do this any easier than having no notifications
set
> > > in the service definition and have a service escalation having the
> > > list of contacts that used to be in the service definition?
> >
> > If you always only want the 2nd notification, then your approach
sounds
> > wrong. You shouldn't suppress the first notification always, but
instead
> > maybe raise the number of consecutive failed checks until you throw
> > a hard state, so you do not get too many false warnings.
> 
> Actually, it is fine (and desired) for the service to show up in the
> web interface as DOWN, and that the history is correctly written.

Another option then is to pass the $NOTIFICATIONNUMBER$ macro to your
notification script and ignore any that == 1.

--
Marc

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