Limiting mail notification for clock drift

[Marc Powell]

On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:43 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote:

>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> The "is_volatile" options is actually already set to "0". :/

That's interesting. That's about the only option that would cause the  
behavior you are reporting that I can think of. Are you using event  
handlers for notifications? Is your notification_interval the same or  
similar to your normal_check_interval? Make sure that you don't have  
multiple nagios daemons running at the same time and that the service  
definition in objects.cache is as you expect it to be.

The only case in which nagios cares about the _text_ of the plugin  
output is when state stalking is enabled. Even then, it only provides  
logging of that change, not a notification. There are only two  
conditions under which notifications will be sent out (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/notifications.html)--

"When Do Notifications Occur?

The decision to send out notifications is made in the service check  
and host check logic. Host and service notifications occur in the  
following instances...

     * When a hard state change occurs. More information on state  
types and hard state changes can be found here.
     * When a host or service remains in a hard non-OK state and the  
time specified by the <notification_interval> option in the host or  
service definition has passed since the last notification was sent out  
(for that specified host or service)."

> 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.

Yup. Standard Operating Procedure for nagios. You have to do something  
unusual to not get this behavior. Perhaps you should post some config  
information from objects.cache for inspection. service definition,  
contact definition and notification command definition.

--
Marc


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes
Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world
http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null