Limiting mail notification for clock drift

Kenneth Holter kenneho.ndu at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 09:43:06 CET 2008


Thanks for your reply.

The "is_volatile" options is actually already set to "0". :/

I think it would be correct to sum up what I'm in need of like this:
Whenever there is a transition from one hard error state to another hard
error state, or when there has been a recovery from such an error, I'd like
a notification.

On 11/11/08, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2008, at 2:08 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> >
> > I'm using Nagios 3.0.3 to monitor things such as time (synchronized
> > with NTP) on our servers, and are getting a lot of semi-duplicate
> > notification mails: As long as there is an error/warning, I get a
> > mail notification every time the clock drift increases or decreases.
> > Is there an option I can set to limit the notification to _one_ mail
> > whenever we enter or leave an error/warning state, and thus not for
> > every time a new drift time is calculated?
>
> Sounds like you need to remove the is_volatile option in your service
> definitions.
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/volatileservices.html
>
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> Marc
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