Different notification_interval for warnings and critical notifications?

Robert Swerdlow rswerdlow at emergentdiscovery.com
Tue Aug 31 20:11:23 CEST 2010


Thanks, this saved me a lot of work.

On Aug 31, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Assaf Flatto wrote:

> On 31/08/10 17:13, Robert Swerdlow wrote:
>>
>> With Nagios 3.0.5, we have monitoring of our servers and hosts.  
>> Currently, we get warning, unknown, critical, and recovery event  
>> notifications sent to our contacts with escalations as expected.  
>> We want to change the configuration to get warnings every 30  
>> minutes and other event notifications every 5 minutes with  
>> escalations. Unfortunately, notification_interval which controls  
>> how often the notification is set can have only one value for each  
>> service.	 The only way I see to do get the warnings and other  
>> notifications on different schedules is to have duplicate service  
>> checks for every service. Is there any way to do this without  
>> duplicating all of the service checks? Thanks, Bob
> From what you say the changes should be in the escalation  
> notification , with the type of alert defined for each interval
>
> escalation_options: This directive is used to define the criteria  
> that determine when this service escalation is used. The escalation  
> is used only if the service is in one of the states specified in  
> this directive. If this directive is not specified in a service  
> escalation, the escalation is considered to be valid during all  
> service states. Valid options are a combination of one or more of  
> the following: r = escalate on an OK (recovery) state, w = escalate  
> on a WARNING state, u = escalate on an UNKNOWN state, and c =  
> escalate on a CRITICAL state. Example: If you specify w in this  
> field, the escalation will only be used if the service is in a  
> WARNING state.
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ 
> objectdefinitions.html#serviceescalation
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