Nagios notifies indefinitely

[Jeff Williams]

Just wondering if this made it to the list.

Jeff

On 11/16/05, Jeff Williams <jeffwilliams05 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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