How does one notify on event handler failure ?

[chris at aidworld.org]

Hi Stanley,

> I would like to have an event handler attempt a service restart __and__
> then
> have Nagios process a restart failure by notifying the contact group and
> doing
> all the other Nag things (log, pace notifications, re-invoke event
> handlers ..) as
> long as the service fails to restart.

How about: set your max_check_attempts to 10. On the 5th soft failure,
restart the service. If the service doesn't come back up properly, Nagios
will check it another 5 times and then report an error in the normal way.

Cheers, Chris.



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