Nagios notifies indefinitely

[Jeff Williams]

I feel like I'm losing my mind here. I am using nagios 2.0b4 and for
some reason, Nagios notifies indefinitely even on services that have a
specified last notification. I don't know what changed, because I have
completely restored from a backup copy when this strangeness wasn't
happening and it still happens. Here is an example escalation and
service file:

define serviceescalation{
        host_name                     myserver
        service_description        /VAR
        first_notification            3
        last_notification             5
        notification_interval       5
        contact_groups              oncall,backup
}

define service{
        use                           generic-service
        host_name                 myserver
        service_description     /VAR
        is_volatile                   0
        check_period              24x7
        retry_check_interval     1
        contact_groups              ulsysadmins
        notification_interval       5
        notification_period         24x7
        notification_options        w,u,c,r
        check_command            check_nrpe!check_disk6
}

What this used to do is notify 'ulsysadmins' for the first two
notifications, then escalate to 'oncall' and 'backup' for the third
through fifth notifications. Right now it does that, but then for the
sixth through infinite notification, it goes back to notifying
ulsysadmins. I thought this was enough to tell it to stop at 5
notifications. It used to be, but now I need to change the escalation
to:

define serviceescalation{
        host_name                     myserver
        service_description        /VAR
        first_notification            3
        last_notification             4
        notification_interval       5
        contact_groups              oncall,backup
}

define serviceescalation{
        host_name                     myserver
        service_description        /VAR
        first_notification            5
        last_notification             5
        notification_interval       0
        contact_groups              oncall,backup
}

Please advise. Let me know if what I'm saying is not clear. Thanks.

Jeff Williams


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