<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2657.73"> <TITLE>Short Notification interval and escalations</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Heya all I am trying to implement the following with host notification. 1: No notification for the 1st 5 mintes that a host goes down. 2: An email to our helpdesk at 5 minutes 3: No more email for 30 minutes 4: an email to system supervisors after 30 minutes. (along with helpdesk) 5: emails every 6 hours thereafter, My original plan was.. Define the host with with notification_interval 5, and the contact group a dummy group with no email notification. Set a host escalation first_notification 2 last_notification 3 notification_interval 30 contact_groups helpdesk Set a host escalation first_notification 3 last_notification 0 notification_interval 360 contact_groups helpdesk,supervisors The problem I forsee is that I can never override the notification interval 5 in the original host definition. Nagios always chooses the shortest notification interval for the notification series, and you can not specify first and last notification in the host definition. Anyone see a way to do this? -Andrew </BODY> </HTML>