Question regarding notifications and time periods

[Andreas Ericsson]

Anthony Brock wrote:
> We've recently discussed narrowing our notification windows for Nagios. At present, we're using a 24x7 for all pagers and email. However, some of our users would like us to narrow this to a 5:30am - 9pm window.
> 
> However, we now have a question concerning how the notifications during a "blackout" period are handled. My assumption is that, during a 3:30am outage, Nagios will simply ignore the "blacked" out users. However, some are concerned that Nagios will instead "save" the notifications until 5:30.
> 
> What is the actual behavior? I can setup a small test specifically for this question. However, I thought I ask here first. Thanks!
> 

Nagios sends as few alerts as possible. Noone will be alerted outside of 
their personal notification_period, so just go ahead and set it up.

Btw... it wouldn't hurt if you get yourself a decent mailclient. The 400 
chars long lines aren't very pretty.

> Tony
> 

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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