Notifications on passive service checks

[Max Schubert]

Escalations can resolve this - if you set an escalation to trigger at
notification 1 and set a re-notify interval in the escalation you will
be re-notified at the set interval while the service remains in the
configured alarm state.

- Max

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Alberto Menichetti
<alb.menichetti at tai.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed the same strange behavior, but I don't think it's the right
> behavior.
> Operating in this way, a linkDown trap will be notified only once (in fact
> the sender device will generate a single trap in response to state change).
> Is it possibile to modify this behavior?
>
>
>
> Hall, JC wrote:
>
> After some testing, it looks like it will only re-notify after receiving
> another passive check result.  It won't simply re-notify because it's still
> in a non-ok state after the notification_interval has expired.  So to combat
> this I just used the check freshness attribute to re-execute my external
> script and feed the passive check result into nagios and thus re-sending a
> non-ok notification at what would have been the interval for notifications.
>
> So technically my external scripts are running at every interval to check
> the freshnes, not only when it's called for by my event_handler from another
> active service check...  which I'm ok with.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 5:00 AM
> To: Nagios Users List
> Cc: Hall, JC
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks
>
> On 11/11/2010 11:27 PM, Hall, JC wrote:
>
>
> Is it accurate that Nagios will only send 1 notification for a
> passive service check?
>
> IE, the notification_interval definition for a passively checked
> service won't instruct Nagios to re-send a notification such as with
> actively checked services?
>
>
>
> To be honest, I haven't got the faintest idea. An educated guess is
> that it will re-send the notification if it receives another passive
> check-result and enough time has passed though, or that it simply
> re-sends the notification when enough time has passed.
>
> If you try and find out, let me know either way and I'll amend the
> docs.
>
>
>
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