Notifications_Nagios

[Brian Snead]

I posted a message earlier about this. It seems that after the first service failure, Nagios immediately starts checking the host every 10 seconds. So, suppose you have the host max_check_attempts set to 5, then 50 seconds after the service fails, an alarm goes out the Host is down. True, this suppresses the alarm that the service is down, but still you get tons of false alarms due to network hiccups. Does anyone have an idea how to change this behavior?

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Powell [mailto:mpowell at ena.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:40 PM
To: itamarf; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Notifications_Nagios


max_check_attempts: This directive is used to define the number of times that Nagios will retry the service check command if it returns any state other than an OK state. Setting this value to 1 will cause Nagios to generate an alert without retrying the service check again.  

normal_check_interval: This directive is used to define the number of "time units" to wait before scheduling the next "regular" check of the service. "Regular" checks are those that occur when the service is in an OK state or when the service is in a non-OK state, but has already been rechecked max_attempts number of times. Unless you've changed the interval_length directive from the default value of 60, this number will mean minutes. More information on this value can be found in the check scheduling documentation.  

retry_check_interval: This directive is used to define the number of "time units" to wait before scheduling a re-check of the service. Services are rescheduled at the retry interval when the have changed to a non-OK state. Once the service has been retried max_attempts times without a change in its status, it will revert to being scheduled at its "normal" rate as defined by the check_interval value. Unless you've changed the interval_length directive from the default value of 60, this number will mean minutes. More information on this value can be found in the check scheduling documentation.  

You'll need to adjust the values above depending on how you want to accomplish it. I use 

        max_check_attempts              5
        normal_check_interval           5
        retry_check_interval            3

Which yields about 15-20 minutes between down and notification (one normal 5 minute check + 5 retries at 3 minutes each = 20).

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: itamarf [mailto:itamarf at pbh.gov.br]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 2:33 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> hi,
> 
> I would like to do the nagios only send notifocations if the services
> are inoperant for a some minutes like 30 minutes, before this time, the
> notifications won´t be sent.
> 
> If someone know how to do it,
> 
> Please, help me
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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