Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

Sunil Sankar sunil at sunil.cc
Tue Jun 11 19:00:40 CEST 2013


There is workaround this is how I fixed in our environment
use_large_installation_tweaks=1 in nagios.cfg see whether this helps this
removes the warning for you

Regards
Sunil




On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Justin T Pryzby <justinp at norchemlab.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:12:23AM -0500, C. Bensend wrote:
> > I can't seem to parse "It doesn't make sense to get a recovery
> > notification for something you never knew was a problem."
>
> see the original language here:
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/notifications.html
> Note: Notifications about host or service recoveries are only sent out
> if a notification was sent out for the original problem. It doesn't
> make sense to get a recovery notification for something you never knew
> was a problem.
>
> And:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/escalations.html
> If, after three problem notifications, a recovery notification is sent
> out for the service, who gets notified?  The recovery is actually the
> fourth notification that gets sent out.  However, the escalation code
> is  smart enough to realize that only those people who were notified
> about  the problem on the third notification should be notified about
> the  recovery.  In this case, the nt-admins and managers contact
> groups would be notified of the recovery.
>
> (Although, I believe I've either misunderstood the implications of
> that statement, or run into misbehaviours in that area myself...)
>
>
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Sunil Sankar
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