Alert Precedence

Claudio Kuenzler ck at claudiokuenzler.com
Sun Apr 28 12:20:07 CEST 2013


Please paste the config of the host and the service from which you received
the notification (in UI -> show config).
Also show the relevant entries of the Nagios event log.

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Net Warrior <netwarrior863 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
> I reviewed my alerts and increased the service check interval as this:
>
> this is the service
>
> notifications_enabled           1
>         notification_options            w,c
>         notification_period             24x7
>         check_period                    24x7
>         check_interval                  10
>         max_check_attempts              3
>         first_notification_delay        0
>         notification_interval           15
>
> This is the host:
>
>         check_interval                  1
>         check_period                    24x7
>         notification_period             24x7
>         max_check_attempts              3
>         notification_interval           10
>         flap_detection_enabled          0
>         first_notification_delay        0
>
>
> So, the host is checked every one minute and on the third failure the
> alert gets fired, for the service I increased it to check every 10 minutes,
> so in theory the hosts check happens firts withing 3 minutes, as the
> service is checked every 10 I should not get any alert on them, but I still
> get the service notifications after the hosts is down.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> Thanks for your time and support.
>
>
> 2013/4/8 Claudio Kuenzler <ck at claudiokuenzler.com>
>
>> This is a "basic dependency" in Nagios. When the host is down (hard) then
>> you won't receive any alerts for the services defined in this host.
>> What is likely in your case, is that you have scheduled the service
>> checks more often or faster to alert before the host check. This will
>> result in some alerts of services before the actual host down alert comes.
>> You should check out the event log to determine which checks happened
>> faster to become a hard critical state.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Net Warrior <netwarrior863 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys.
>>>
>>> I've got a doubt regarding the alerts definitions, I have defined
>>> several alerts for a host, for example one of them is to check if the host
>>> is up or down, when the host is down I get the alert as usual ans so on,
>>> but the other alerts get fired as well, service alerts, my question is, if
>>> is there a way to tell nagios,  if the server is down, do  not tigger the
>>> other alerts cuz of course are gonna fail?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time and support
>>> Best Regards
>>>
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