Delay notification/escalations

[Israel Brewster]

On Dec 15, 2007, at 12:24 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Israel Brewster wrote:
>> I need some clarification of how nagios will respond to something I  
>> am  trying to do. I have a number of hosts I am monitoring that I  
>> want  nagios to note immediately (well, almost) if they go down,  
>> but I don't  want to receive a notification unless they stay in a  
>> hard down state  for more than, say, 5 minutes. Now if I understand  
>> things correctly, I  can accomplish this using host escalations by  
>> setting the notification  options on the host to n (none) and the  
>> notification interval to 5  minutes, and then setting up a host  
>> escalation with a  first_notification directive of 2. Does this  
>> sound correct?
>> I have a couple of concerns about this setup. From my reading of  
>> the  documentation (correct me if I am wrong), it sounds as though   
>> escalations only change the contact_groups and notification_periods  
>> of  the notifications. If I have the notification options of the  
>> host set  to n, does the escalation override this? If not, and I  
>> set the host  notification options to, say, d,r, then how do I  
>> prevent a  notification being sent out immediately when the host  
>> goes down? Does  the notification_interval directive even have any  
>> effect if the  notification_options are set to none? The last thing  
>> I want to do is  try making this change, and end up not being  
>> notified at all when a  host goes down for an extended period of  
>> time. Thanks.
>
> You should be able to use "first_notification_delay" for this. I'm not
> sure which version it's included in, but 3.x will almost certainly  
> have
> it.
>

Thanks for the info. That sounds like exactly what I am looking for,  
but from what I can tell it is not available in version 2.7 (which is  
what I am running) - at any rate, I couldn't find it in the  
documentation. I plan on moving to 3 as soon after it is released as I  
can manage (and my boss allows), but for now I need a solution that  
works with 2.7

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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service Inc.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
(907) 450-7250 x293
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> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
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