Nagios 2.9 and Escalations.

[Steven Haigh]

Ahhhh ­ Thanks Robert. I think it would be of great help if the wildcard
information was on the pages detailing service and host escalations! :)


On 7/6/07 2:30 PM, "Robert King" <robert.king at publishingtechnology.com>
wrote:

> Steven Haigh wrote:
>>  
>> I've read through the docs of serviceescalation and hostescalation and
>> there's one thing that remains unclear to me. If a hostescalation is
>> defined, does this ONLY activate when the host check fails (ie
>> check-host-alive) or if any of the services on the host fails?
>> 
>>   
> The host escalation will only be used for host checks. You'll need to escalate
> the services on the host separately.
> 
>>  
>> If it's only triggered on the check-host-alive failing, is there an easy
>> way (ie a wildcard or similar) to activate escalation based on ALL
>> services for a host? Does this require a serviceescalation definition
>> for EVERY service on a host? I sure hope not!
>> 
>>   
> Yes, you can use a wildcard, e.g.:
> 
> define serviceescalation {
>         hostgroups                      important-hosts
>         service_description            *
>         contact_groups                  all-page
>         first_notification              5
>         last_notification               20
>         notification_interval           2
> }
> 
> For more information on this, see the Nagios manual section entitled
> "Time-saving tips for object definitions":
> 
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Rob
> 
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