Query about notifications and scheduled downtime

[Andreas Ericsson]

Carson Gaspar wrote:
> Having read the documentation rather thoroughly, there's one thing I 
> still can't figure out. Given the following timeline:
> 
> - Scheduled downtime begins for a service
> - Nagios receives a non-OK passive check result for the service
> - Scheduled downtime for that service ends
> 
> When will nagios check to see if it needs to send a notification for 
> this still-down service? The docs say that a notification will go out 
> after notification_interval if:
> 
> (1) a notification was already sent out about a problem with the host or 
> service at some point in the past and (2) the host or service has 
> remained in the same non-OK state that it was when the last notification 
> went out.
> 
> There was no original notification (due to the scheduled downtime). So 
> how does this work? Will nagios ever tell us that we have a problem?
> 

The logical thing to do would be to send a notification when the 
scheduled downtime ends. Perhaps there are other things blocking the 
notification (notification_(options|timeperiod) for instance)?

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


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