How configure Nagios to send periodic notifications?

[Sean McAfee]

Arnau wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   Since few weeks ago we use Nagios as monitoring system and everytime
> there is a problem it notifies sending an email. We have a system that
> parses those emails and using a text to speech system it makes a phone
> call. To be sure that the alarm system is running we have periodic calls
> launched by emails programmed as cron tasks. I'm worried that some of
> the Nagios notifications could be lost or even it wouldn't sent any
> notification, so I'd like to launch to substitute those cron emails by
> Nagios "fake" notifications or something similar.
> 
>   Do you know if there is a way to force Nagios to send a notification
> periodically?

Another way to do it would be to schedule it as a check with a 5 minute 
timeperiod , a 10 minute check_interval, and obsession. This would cause 
it to run once a day and alert on everytime, not just when the status 
changes.

-- 
Sean McAfee
System Engineer

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