Nagios takes too much time to send notifications

[Andreas Ericsson]

Good gods, Patrick. Please add *some* form of prefixing for
the text you're replying too. I've been thinking you and
Jorge are one and the same for at least three threads now.

Morris, Patrick wrote:
> Since I have added the notifications via SMS, I noticed that the time passed since Nagios discovers that a service or host changes the state and sends the notifications (that you can check in the notifications web interface) sometimes it takes up to 10 minutes.
> 
> Why it happens? It detects that the service is critical but sometimes to receive the notification is long time!
> 
> It is not useful for a demo of nagios :(
> 
> Any hint?
> Check your logs to see if it's a mail delay or something inside Nagios causing the delay. Once you know why the delay is occurring, you can take steps to minimize it.
> 

It's by design. If you look in the web-interface you'll see that the
state of the host or service is soft (rather, you'll see that
"Attempts" is at x/y, where y > x). This is intended, since lots of
stuff sometimes have "hiccups" in a network during temporary lagspikes.
After a minute or two those hiccups usually resolve themselves, so
Nagios has an option to delay notifications, and also to try several
times to check the service before it sends one.

If you really want Nagios to send a notification the instant it
notices something is wrong, set "max_check_attempts" to 1 in all your
host and service object definitions.

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