<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>This should be fairly easy. As I've recently struggled with escalations, I'll give you some pointers. You may want to set the default contact group for this host/service to be a null address and set the notification_interval to 10. Then, setup an escalation for the first two notifications you need with a first_notification of 1 and a last_notification of 2. Also, in your escalation, set a contact group which can e-mail and sms. To get the recovery notification, setup another escalation with a first_notification of 3, a final_notification of 0, and an escalation_options of r. Set the contact group you want which sends sms, e-mail, and voice.This should handle the recovery for you. Obviously, you'll need to setup the appropriate contact groups and commands to dispatch the notifications. There may be a better option, and I haven't tested the above, but it *should* work. It might need a little tweaking. -Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: craig@hooters-uk.com To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:16:10 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [Nagios-users] Alerts, Escalation and Alert Counts Hi Group, I wonder if you could help me out with the following scenario I would like to set up. I will try and explain best I can but if I'm a little vague in places please let me know, here goes then.. I'm monitoring for example an FTP service that if goes down flags as critical, I would like to alert in the following way. Alert 1 after 10 minutes: - Email, SMS. Alert 2 after another 10 minutes: - Email, SMS. Alert 3 after another 10 minutes: - Email, SMS and then Voice alert. Then after that no alarms at all until a recovery notice is sent, I understand the intervals between alerts but its getting the alerts to stop after the 3rd one that I'm hitting issues with. SMS and voice alerts are by external companies who just convert my mail to the appropriate service. If this can not be set-up what is the closest I can get to achieving this, sorry for the question but I can not seam to get my head around escalations. Many thanks and hope you can help me with what is causing me grief Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </div></body></html>