Notifications and Escalations and Notification_intervals, oh my!

[Martin Melin]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Mike Neimoyer <mike at summersault.com> wrote:
> Hello, all!
>
> I'm trying to understand how notification intervals work when it comes
> to basic service definitions and serviceescalation definitions. Does
> Nagios disregard the initial notification_interval of a service
> definition, once it reaches an escalation, in favor of the escalation's
> notification_interval?
>
> Example:
> I have a service's notification_interval set to 15, so that once a state
> change occurs, a notification is sent out, then another after 15
> minutes, and another after 15 minutes, etc... With Nagios counting the
> notifications as they get sent.
>
> Now, I want to define an escalation for that service so that on
> notification number 2 Nagios notifies a different contact_group.  I have
> the notification_interval for the escalation set to 10 minutes.
>
> How does the notification_interval work in this instance, where the
> period is different?

Hey Mike,

If there is a matching escalation definition that will take precedence
over the service definition. In cases where you have conflicting
notification_interval values that are all valid, Nagios will use the
smallest interval.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/escalations.html

Regards
Martin Melin

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