Delay before pageing/e-mailing

[jeff vier]

So, only kick up the retry_check_interval and max_check_attempts for the
services for the specific devices you want to 'delay'.

You can define those parameters for each service (or put it in your
template, or whatever).

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 17:20, Greg Redder wrote:
> Jeff, Jason,
> 
> You both suggested I look at retry_check_interval and max_check_attempts.
> However, as *I* understand it that will affect all devices.
> Unfortunately, we have various groups for which we wish to delay the
> pageing/emailing.  Some groups we wish to wait 15 minutes, others 5
> minutes.
> 
> Also, if the device comes back up in the 15 minutes, we don't want to be
> paged. Sorry, I wasn't clear about that.
> 
> THank you --Greg Redder
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, jeff vier wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:45:33 -0600
> > From: jeff vier <jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com>
> > To: redder at yuma.acns.colostate.edu
> > Cc: nagios-users <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Delay before pageing/e-mailing
> >
> > 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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