Is it possible to confirm an alarm condition prior to generating an alert?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of don mccallum
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:48 AM
> To: Nagios Users List
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Is it possible to confirm an alarm condition
prior
> to generating an alert?
> 
> 
> 
> Hello everybody.
> 
> I am running Nagios 1.2b and 2.01 at two separate locations. Both on
> Redhat 7.3
> 
> The issue I am running into is a large number of false alerts, which
due
> to the nature of what we are monitoring.  (In reality they are real
alerts
> but they immediately recover - Nagios is working to well!)
> 
> We monitor our customers servers who are widely distributed on the
net.
> Most are on DSL, cable or wireless connections.  The customers we have
on
> non-dedicated lines are generating real errors whenever they have to
> reboot a cable modem etc, but they always recover within a few
minutes.
> Our alerts typically read "10:48 Host1 is down" then immediately
"10:48
> Service xxx is down" (repeat for all services) then followed by "10:48
> Host1 is up" followed by "10:48 Service xxx has recovered" (repeat
again)
> 
> Therefore, my question is on the host/service checks can I have it
recheck
> a host/service when a failure occurs after 5 or 10 seconds prior to
> generating the first alert?  Perhaps configuring it to only send an
email
> after the 2nd error condition is seen.  Simply double checking prior
to
> generating the alert would be helpful to us.

Max_check_attempts 2
Retry_check_interval [duration to wait between check attempts]

--
Marc



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