Doubt about email notifications

[Daniel Bareiro]

Hi Marc.

On Tuesday, 14 April 2009 07:11:28 -0500,
Marc Powell wrote:

> > Is there any variable where I can configure each how long are sent
> > the email notifications for the services? At first I see that these
> > are  sent hourly.
> 
> notification_interval -- http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service

Perfect.
 
> > On the other hand, I would like also to know if it is possible to
> > define the maximum number of notifications that are sent.
> >
> > I read exist variables that allow to configure both things using
> > escalations, although I do not have defined escalations.

> yes, I believe an escalation would do for this. I haven't done this
> but I expect you could set your first notification to the number of
> the last notification you want to receive (i.e. 3 for the third
> notification) and your last notification to some high number (99).
> Create a contact with a notification period of 'none' and set it as
> the contact for the escalation.

It seems a good idea :-) I am going to try it and any doubt I will
consult you again.

Thanks to both for your replies.

Regards,
Daniel
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