Determine previous service state in notification script

[Jonathan Thorpe]

Hi All,

I run a Nagios 2.6 installation and have a custom notification script for sending out SMSes.

A common complaint I have from people on-call is the fact they receive warnings for servers that reach warning level for storage.

What I'd like to do is customise my notification script so that it only sends storage warnings (and their accompanying recoveries) as SMSes during business hours only.

Effectively, I'd like it to do the following (only for services of type "STORAGE"):

OK -> WARNING: No Alert
WARNING -> OK: No Alert

WARNING -> CRITICAL: Alert
CRITICAL -> WARNING: Alert

OK -> CRITICAL: Alert
CRITICAL -> OK: Alert

I have no problem implementing this functionality, provided I can work out what the previous state is. Is there a way through the Nagios API that would allow me to query what the previous state was before the current level, or would I be better off tracking this through the notification script?

Thanks,
Jonathan
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