Too many notifications with passive submissions

[John P. Rouillard]

I am seeing something wierd under nagios-1.0. Since I am running a
modified version, I am wondering if my mods are causing the problem.

Here is the event log:
     
09-01-2003 15:05:50] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
     jrouilla;twiki;HTTP;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;Socket timeout after
     10 seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:05:49] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
     PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;twiki;HTTP;2;Socket timeout after 10
     seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:05:00] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
     PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;twiki;sec;0;sec is running 
[09-01-2003 15:04:50] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
     jrouilla;twiki;HTTP;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;Socket timeout after
     10 seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:04:49] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
     PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;twiki;HTTP;2;Socket timeout after 10
     seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:03:50] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
     jrouilla;twiki;HTTP;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;Socket timeout after
     10 seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:03:49] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
     PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;twiki;HTTP;2;Socket timeout after 10
     seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:02:50] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
     jrouilla;twiki;HTTP;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;Socket timeout after
     10 seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:02:49] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
     PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;twiki;HTTP;2;Socket timeout after 10
     seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:01:53] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
     jrouilla;twiki;HTTP;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;Socket timeout after
     10 seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:01:50] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
     PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;twiki;HTTP;2;Socket timeout after 10
     seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:01:00] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
     PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;twiki;sec;0;sec is running 
[09-01-2003 15:00:53] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
     jrouilla;twiki;HTTP;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;Socket timeout after
     10 seconds 
[09-01-2003 15:00:50] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
     PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;twiki;HTTP;2;Socket timeout after 10
     seconds 

Note that over this time period, 6 service notifications were sent
each in response to a critical error on the HTTP service.
The service entry is:

define service{
        use                             generic-service
        host_name                       twiki
        service_description             HTTP
        is_volatile                     0
        check_period                    24x7
        max_check_attempts              3
        normal_check_interval           20
        retry_check_interval            1
        contact_groups                  admins
        notification_interval           120
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_options            w,u,c,r
        check_command                   check_http_c!-s HTTP!-c 8 -w 4
                                         -u http://XXXX/XXX
        }

To me this means I should only get an announcement every 2 hours (120
minutes) as long as the state doesn't change. Am I wrong in this
assumption?

Even a "it shouldn't do that" response will be helpful as it means I
have to dig further into the code.

				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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