Notifications on passive service checks

[Hall, JC]

After some testing, it looks like it will only re-notify after receiving another passive check result.  It won't simply re-notify because it's still in a non-ok state after the notification_interval has expired.  So to combat this I just used the check freshness attribute to re-execute my external script and feed the passive check result into nagios and thus re-sending a non-ok notification at what would have been the interval for notifications.

So technically my external scripts are running at every interval to check the freshnes, not only when it's called for by my event_handler from another active service check...  which I'm ok with.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 5:00 AM
To: Nagios Users List
Cc: Hall, JC
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

On 11/11/2010 11:27 PM, Hall, JC wrote:
> Is it accurate that Nagios will only send 1 notification for a
> passive service check?
> 
> IE, the notification_interval definition for a passively checked
> service won't instruct Nagios to re-send a notification such as with
> actively checked services?
> 

To be honest, I haven't got the faintest idea. An educated guess is
that it will re-send the notification if it receives another passive
check-result and enough time has passed though, or that it simply
re-sends the notification when enough time has passed.

If you try and find out, let me know either way and I'll amend the
docs.

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