Notification flood after host down

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Could you provide a couple snippets from your config files, namely one host
definition, and one service definition for that host?

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Chilton [mailto:mailinglist at ichilton.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 8:32 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Notification flood after host down
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I setup nagios a few days ago and so far it's been fine. I've 
> had a few
> host down notifications followed by a host up notification a 
> few minutes
> later.
> 
> I setup a few more hosts+services this morning and one just went down.
> Nagios sent out a host down notification. When the host came back, it
> sent a hot up/recovery noticiation - all good so far.
> 
> However, over the next 10 minutes, I got recovery 
> notifications of each
> service on that host coming back up - even though they were 
> down due to
> the host been down and I had not been notified of them been 
> down (which
> is right).
> 
> Also, when I started getting these messages, I looked in the interface
> and the services which were still down had about 10 minutes 
> gap between
> the 'last check' and 'next check'.
> 
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
> 1) Does any one have any ideas why it notified me for each 
> service coming
> back up after the host was down?
> 
> One way to fix that is to disable the recovery notification for
> services, but then I will never get recovery notices for the services.
> The only time I dont is when the host has been down, which obviously
> takes the services with it so I dont need to know they have come back
> when the host comes back.
> 
> 
> 2) How come it was only checking services every 10 mins or so 
> when they
> were down - shurly it should do it every 
> "retry_check_interval or if not
> that, every "normal_check_interval"?
> 
> My settings for those services are:
> 
> max_check_attempts              3
> normal_check_interval           5
> retry_check_interval            1
> notification_interval           240
> notification_period             24x7
> notification_options            w,u,c,r
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --ian
> 
> 
> 
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