I am having a difficulty getting escalations to work on Nagios 3.0.3<div><br></div><div>The following is pulled from the documentation:</div><div><br></div><div><div>define serviceescalation{</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>host_name<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>webserver</div>
<div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>service_description<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HTTP</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>first_notification<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3</div>
<div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last_notification<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>notification_interval<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>45</div>
<div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>contact_groups<span style="white-space: pre;"> ITOps_Oncall</span>,managers</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>}</div>
<div><br></div><div>define serviceescalation{</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>host_name<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>webserver</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>service_description<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HTTP</div>
<div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>first_notification<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last_notification<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>0</div>
<div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>notification_interval<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>60</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>contact_groups<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> ITOps_Oncall</span>,managers,everyone</div>
<div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>}<br><br>I have read the documentation, but I don't understand what the "notification_interval" are based on, and sine we have hosts inheriting from a "core" template it is very difficult to test escalations.<br>
We use OpCfg to do our Nagios configuration, but it does not stop me from occasionally going into the actual configuration files to make changes either.<br><br>If anyone has this working, and could shed some light on how I can get this to work, or clarify the documentation explanation of it. Also, since I am inheriting from a template I feel as though the changes I make to a particular host (to test) is being ignored or it maybe me not understanding what the "notification_interval" are exactly.<br>
<br>Any advice is very much appreciated.<br></div></div>