service escalation problems

[Bruce Thayre]

Hello,
I'm not new to nagios, however his is the first nagios installation i 
have done with nagios 3.x.  I've set up several service escalations in 
my services.cfg, they are being recognized and registered with nagios, 
however they are not actually doing anything.  Despite the escalations 
being there, i see each of my services spamming notifications every 30 
minutes.  Is there any additional options i need to enable in Nagios 
3.0.4 to get make the escalations effective.  Or is there any reason 
that when i run "nagios -v nagios.cfg" and i get this as output:

Nagios 3.0.4
Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 10-15-2008
License: GPL

Reading configuration data...

Running pre-flight check on configuration data...

Checking services...
    Checked 338 services.
Checking hosts...
    Checked 112 hosts.
Checking host groups...
    Checked 5 host groups.
Checking service groups...
    Checked 0 service groups.
Checking contacts...
    Checked 1 contacts.
Checking contact groups...
    Checked 1 contact groups.
Checking service escalations...
    Checked 973 service escalations.
Checking service dependencies...
    Checked 0 service dependencies.
Checking host escalations...
    Checked 0 host escalations.
Checking host dependencies...
    Checked 0 host dependencies.
Checking commands...
    Checked 25 commands.
Checking time periods...
    Checked 5 time periods.
Checking for circular paths between hosts...
Checking for circular host and service dependencies...
Checking global event handlers...
Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
Checking misc settings...

Total Warnings: 0


So nagios clearly can see the 973 service escalations, they just don't 
seem to be working.  So it would seem my syntax is correct, so an 
example of one of my service escalations (they're all more or less 
identical for different services):

define serviceescalation{
    host_name        *,!Rambo, !localhost, !nagios, !t2gw04, !uaf-3
    service_description    condor_master_alive
    first_notification    1
    last_notification    2
    notification_interval    180
    contact_groups        admins
    }


define serviceescalation{
    host_name        *,!Rambo, !localhost, !nagios, !t2gw04, !uaf-3
    service_description    condor_master_alive
    first_notification    3
    last_notification    4
    notification_interval    1440
    contact_groups        admins
    }


define serviceescalation{
    host_name        *,!Rambo, !localhost, !nagios, !t2gw04, !uaf-3
    service_description    condor_master_alive
    first_notification    5
    last_notification    6
    notification_interval    0
    contact_groups        admins
    }


Any help/input/ridicule would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

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