Delay before pageing/e-mailing

[jeff vier]

What you are describing really doesn't *solve* anything.

Consider what you've stated:
1. System has a problem, nagios notices it.
2. Page/email goes into a queue
3. time passes (15 minutes, as you stated)
4. regardless the system state, you get a page.

Why not just adjust the retry_check_interval and max_check_attempts in
your service definition to suit your application's needs?  An external
"message delayer" isn't really helping you.

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 16:32, Greg Redder wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to get Nagios to pause for a while before it
> pages/emails us about a problem.  We monitor pings to some devices which
> aren't that critical, but that we still care about. We're not too worried
> about them unless they are down (unpingable) for more than 15 minutes.
> 
> I'm preparing to write a plug-in that waits a specified amount of time
> before pageing/emailing us when it detects a problem.  However, before I
> get too carried away, has anyone else already dealt with this problem?
> 
> Thank you
> --Greg Redder
>   Network Analyst
>   Colorado State University
> 
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