Notification after host down 10 minutes once only

[Andreas Ericsson]

C. Bensend wrote:
>>>I want to only send an email notification once a host has been down for
>>>10
>>>minutes and then to only send one email for that host unless it comes
>>>back
>>>up again. In reading the documentation I can't see a way to make this
>>>happen.
>>>
>>>Anybody know of the way to set this up?
>>>
>>
>>Work some magic with escalations. It's a bit of a hack, but will do what
>>you want. Read about it in the documentation.
> 
> 
> Ummmmmm...  Am I missing something?  In the host definition:
> 
> max_check_attempts 60
> notification_interval 0
> 
> The max_check_attempts should be about 10 minutes, and a
> notification_interval of 0 will make it alert once only.  Isn't
> that's what's desired?  If so, why mess with escalations (honest
> question)?
> 

Because host checks are fired in a serialized manner without delay and 
while holding service checks back. Making one host check take 10 minutes 
would cause a serious interruption in normal monitoring logic.
max_check_attempts also isn't a very good way of keeping time, since the 
plugin can fail at an earlier stage depending on how its done and how 
the network looks.

> Benny
> 
> 

-- 
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andreas.ericsson at op5.se


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