Customizing notifications

[Marc Powell]

On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Chip Burke wrote:

> I have a request to “plain English”-ify my notifications. One item I have been asked for is when the service state changes, to report the duration of the previous service state.
>  
> Example: HTTP is now OK after 00:02:35 of down time.
>  
> Is there an easy way to do this? It seems Nagios doesn’t offer a Last State Duration macro, so I am assuming this is going to be a matter of some sort of custom scripting. Has anyone had experience with this sort of thing?

$LASTSERVICEOK$	has potential, depending on when it's updated. "This is a timestamp in time_t format (seconds since the UNIX epoch) indicating the time at which the service was last detected as being in an OK state."

so time_t(now) - $LASTSERVICEOK$ = number of seconds in non-OK state

I am _assuming_ that the macro is not updated until after the recovery notification is sent.

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Marc
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