<div>On 4/4/07, john <<a href="mailto:lists@cloned.org.uk">lists@cloned.org.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, I'm looking for a way to do adaptive notifications on monitoring a single service so that it notifies differently based on different criteria. For example, monitoring a network port bandwidth usage, we want an alert if between: 0000 to 0559 - its 12Mbps+ for over 30 mins 0600 to 2359 - its 5Mbps+ for over 3 hrs OR 8Mbps+ for over 30 mins I can obviously do this by setting up 3 different services with the appropriate variables and query the thing 3 times, but thats not a particularly nice solution if you want to monitor hundreds of ports.. The other option I see is to have the checking script do the processing of this, and then hand it off as critical or warning or whatever to nagios which then alerts on first status change, but that seems to be part way to building a replacement to nagios ;-) Anyone have any suggestions on other ways to do what I want to do? Cheers,</blockquote><div> Unfortunately I think you've covered all the traditional way of doing this. I guess it comes down to your preference of the lesser of two evils as to which you implement. Perhaps another option for you is to look at using a NEBModule. This could change the command line definition for your service check_command based around the time of day. This is possible as NEBModules have access to all of the internal object data stores in Nagios by interfacing directly with the daemon. Rob </div> </div>