[Q] Service config, go critical:HARD; Alert every 5 minutes until non-critical

[Roderick A. Anderson]

Martin Merlin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 17:03, Roderick A. Anderson
> <raanders at cyber-office.net> wrote:
>> My Nagios foo must leave a lot to be desired.  8-(
>>
>> I have not been able to figure out the correct combination of service
>> definition settings to get a check to go CRITICAL:HARD on the first try
>> (no SOFT alerts), and keep sending alerts (every five minutes) until the
>> check/alert clears.
>>
>> Either the complete answer or a clue-stick whack (the settings I should
>> be looking at) would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> From http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service

Thanks Martin.

No sure if I'd made it to this page.  "The Book" is a little brief in 
it's description.

> max_check_attempts:This directive is used to define the number of
> times that Nagios will retry the service check command if it returns
> any state other than an OK state. Setting this value to 1 will cause
> Nagios to generate an alert without retrying the service check again.

OK.  This makes sense.  (Whack one!)

> 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.

This too makes sense and again "The Book" is a little too brief in it's 
description.

> This should be enough to get you up and running :-)

I'll try it today.

> If you still have problems, post your config to the list.

I will if needed but it has nothing out of the ordinary.  Uses the 
'generic_service' template from a CentOS 5.x install of Nagios 3.0.6 
plus check_interval of 5 (minutes).  Nothing else special.  (3.2.1 from 
Rpmforge will be coming in a week or so.)


Again thanks,
Rod
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> Martin Melin
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