Initial Nagios Startup Notification Delay

[Morris, Patrick]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Andrew Bruce wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Nagios 3.0.3 and am wondering if there is a way I can delay
> notifications out of Nagios by x minutes from initial application startup?
> 
> If the service/host were still down after this initial startup
> non-notification period, I would expect to receive a notification though.
> 
> It would be quite handy, as I send alerts to cell phones, and receiving a
> very large amount of TXT messages can be frustrating, especially in a
> meeting.
> 
> Is there a function like this available?  I haven't seen anything in the
> documentation that would suggest it is (although could have missed it).

You could turn off notifications via the external command pipe on startup,
sleep x minutes, then turn them on.

The DISABLE_NOTIFICATIONS and ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS external commands 
should do what you want.

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