alert timeframe

[Martin Barry]

$quoted_author = "James Tran" ;
> 
> Hi i was wondering if there was a way to set nagios not to notify for 
> instance if a host is down immediately... say give it like 2 to 3 
> minutes to recover before a notification is sent.
> i understand how to set interval BETWEEN notifications but i dunno how 
> to set the initial notification delay.

change the number of retries so it delays the transition from "soft fail" to
"hard fail".

e.g. if you check every 5 minutes when "ok", every 1 minute when "not ok"
and have 5 retries then you will be notified somewhere between 5 and 10
minutes after the server/service fails. increasing the retries will delay
the alert...

cheers
marty

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