Delay notification/escalations

[Andreas Ericsson]

Israel Brewster wrote:
> 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
> 

The patch was originally written for nagios 2.x. If you find it in the
archives you should be able to apply it to the nagios 2.7 sources and
then re-compile your Nagios.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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