Notification Limits

[Andreas Ericsson]

Brett Stevens wrote:
> Hi guys, Ive looked but cant seem to find anything on limiting the total
> number of nofifications that can go out on a particular service or host
> failure. We are switching over from ipsentry and it has this limit so if by
> chance a service fails in the middle of the night we wont ge wacked with a
> huge sms bill by limiting the amount of sms we send.
>  

Set notification_interval to 0 for one notification per event.
Do some magic with escalations to get more but not zero.

In fact, I think I'll hack up a max_notifications variable for hosts and 
services. It seems overkill to use escalations for just limiting them to 
a specific number.

> thanks
>  
> Brett Stevns'
>  
> 

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


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