RES: Passive service notification after X minutes

[Dario B. Bestetti]

James, I would try to use na event correlation mechanism to pre-process the traps before sending it to Nagios. Try SEC
(http://kodu.neti.ee/~risto/sec/). It´s an elegant solution for this sort of problem.

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> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] Em
> nome de Mohr James
> Enviada em: segunda-feira, 26 de novembro de 2007 14:03
> Para: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Assunto: [Nagios-users] Passive service notification after X minutes
> 
> 
> 
> Hi All!
> 
> We have an application that sends SNMP traps to a trap server. Which
> then uses send_nsca to send status changes. The application may notice a
> problem and send a trap, thus changing the status of the Nagios service,
> but the problem is self-correcting and the application may be Ok within
> just a few seconds. However, the Nagios service has become critical and
> thus send a notification. Not a happy thing at 2AM when you are sound
> asleep.
> 
> Looking through the service definition I do not see anything that
> applies. If it were an active service, I could use max_check_attempts.
> However, in this cases, we only get the traps on every status change, so
> if the service is down, the trap is set and thus the notification is
> sent. Within the trap receiver, there is no way to wait a specific
> period of time before sending the messages, only wait for X traps in Y
> minutes.
> 
> I am at a loss as to how to get Nagios to wait for a specific length of
> time before starting the notification other than creating some major
> kludge like tweaking the notification mechanism somehow. Any help is
> appreaciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Mohr
> 
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