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[Neil]

Hi Marc, 

I thought 240 means 240 seconds. 

What about these lines:
       normal_check_interval           5
       retry_check_interval            1 

Does it mean 5 minutes for normal_check_interval and 1 minute for 
retry_check_interval? 

Thanks for the link. 

Marc Powell writes: 

>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Neil [mailto:neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:31 AM
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] mail notifications 
>> 
>> Hi guys, 
>> 
>> I am wondering why I am getting emails in 2 hours interval for this
>> specific
>> service. Here is what I have in services: 
>> 
>> define service{
>>        use                             generic-service 
>> 
>>        host_name                       cluster1
>>        service_description             Microsoft Cluster Service
>>        is_volatile                     0
>>        check_period                    24x7
>>        max_check_attempts              3
>>        normal_check_interval           5
>>        retry_check_interval            1
>>        contact_groups                  microsoft-admins
>>        notification_interval           240
>>        notification_period             24x7
>>        notification_options            c,r
>>        check_command
>> check_nrpe!check_service_ClusterService
>>        } 
>> 
>> How and what should I modify so that nagios will email me in the
> interval
>> of
>> 5 or 10 minutes?
> 
> Your notification interval is currently set to 240 minutes (4 hours) so
> I'm not sure why you're getting them every two hours for this service.
> Changing it to 5 or 10 should do what you want. 
> 
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#service 
> 
> notification_interval: This directive is used to define the number of
> "time units" to wait before re-notifying a contact that this service is
> still in a non-OK state. Unless you've changed the interval_length
> directive from the default value of 60, this number will mean minutes.
> If you set this value to 0, Nagios will not re-notify contacts about
> problems for this service - only one problem notification will be sent
> out.   
> 
> 
>> And can also give me some insights about how "notification_options"
> can be
>> useful in notification. I mean such as, when can "c", "r", "d", or "u"
> be
>> useful in mail notifications. I couldn't find some help from the
> manual. 
> 
> They're useful (and designed) for specifying what state changes you get
> notified for. If you only want to be notified when something goes
> critical and then recovers, your notification_options would be 'c,r'. If
> you only care to be notified when something is unreachable but not when
> it's critical, down or recovering, then your notification_options would
> be only 'u'. 
> 
> See the host and service definition documentation on
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html if it's still
> not clear. 
> 
> --
> Marc 
> 
 


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