Howto force a notification (before the schedul ed renotify time) for a down host/critical service ?

[Michael Gale]

Hello,

	You could do the following:

Setup to two contacts for each person:
personA-local
personA-remote

personA-local goes to their main e-mail address (ours is our exchange 
mail box). Time frame 24hrs

personA-remote goes to their mobilie device (ours goes to our phone).
Time frame 7-23

That way in the evening between 23-7 I do not get messages to my phone 
and when I am awake and check my main e-mail account I see all the 
notifications that came through.

Michael


Ton Voon wrote:
> 
> On 12 Jul 2006, at 18:56, Tedman Eng wrote:
> 
>>> For instance, assume a service has a timeperiod of 05:00 to
>>> 23:00 and
>>> contacts have timeperiods of 24 hours. If the service fails at 3am,
>>> Nagios will schedule the next check at 05:00. If it still fails at
>>> 05:00, contacts will be notified.
>>>
>>
>> That makes sense, that's how it's designed.  If ANY timeperiod filter 
>> fails
>> (service or contact timeperiod), the notification is not sent.  When a
>> service renotifies, it will check the filters again during that attempt.
>> And again during the next re-notify attempt, and so on.
> 
> 
> My understanding from the docs is that passing a service timeperiod acts 
> differently than passing a contact timeperiod. Once a service timeperiod 
> passes, the clock starts ticking for the next notification interval. So 
> the two scenarios are not equivalent.
> 
> 
>>> However, the converse is not true (and is arguably the more likely  
>>>
>>> scenario). Assume the service is 24 hours, but the contacts have a  
>>>
>>> timeperiod of 05:00 to 23:00. If the service fails at 3am, the  
>>>
>>> service is considered to be notified, but the filter for sending  
>>>
>>> notifications to contacts will fail. Contacts will not get  
>>>
>>> notification unless there is a notification retry.
>>>
>>
>> Same as above.  The 3am notification failed a timeperiod filter, so 
>> the next
>>
>> renotification will test the filter again, and again, and so forth 
>> until one
>>
>> of the re-notification attempts passes all timeperiod filters.
>>
> 
> But this is the situation Stanley is asking for: how to get 
> notifications of errors when a contact's timeperiod becomes available.
> 
> Let's say this: if the failure happened at 3am, the contact is not 
> within timeperiod and *no* notification interval is set. The 
> notification will never happen. I don't think this is right. I would 
> expect, possibly naively, that I would get all the notifications, but 
> only during the times I want.
> 
> Maybe you just should always set a notification interval. But it can't 
> be too frequent because it would be annoying, but then that creates a 
> longer lag time...
> 
> I did start by saying I didn't have any answers :)
> 
> Ton
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Michael Gale

Red Hat Certified Engineer
Network Administrator
Pason Systems Corp.


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