Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

[C. Bensend]

> 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...)

Ah.  Well, yes.  :)  I believe those statements are referring to
the filters that Nagios uses to determine whether or not to send
a notification at all.  *That's* not an issue here, the notification
goes out, just like it should.

*My* question is why the sanity check thinks that configuration
doesn't make sense.  I think the answer is probably something to
the effect of:  "I don't know why anyone would want that, so warn
about it."  I don't want to put words in the mouth of any of the
developers that may have touched it, though, so I'm just guessing.

I just want to make sure this is a case of Nagios maybe not giving
the right advice in its sanity check, and *not* that there's something
behind the scenes that I'm not aware of that might actually cause a
problem.  If it's the former, maybe we can get it adjusted for the
next release.  If it's the latter, I hope someone will step forth with
the ClueBat 5000(tm) and give me a good thump.  :)

Thanks, everyone!

Benny


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