Hi everybody:
I'm working hard with Nagios 3.0.4 on Debian Lenny.
I have some questions. I can't find any information about these issues.
I have hosts with a first_notification_delay of 60 minutes.
And I have the whole day a Nagios controlling the same hosts. It's good to know if the same host is turned on during the night, but my work period begins at 10:00 am and it finish at 22:00 pm, I'm not a lucky boy So I have configured a notification Period to 10:00 am to 22:00 pm.

Question 1: If a host goes into hard state CRITICAL, I know that Nagios waits 60 minutes to send a notification, but What happens if the host recovers before the first_notification_delay period ( for example, 30 min before)?
Does it send the recovery notification or not?
Question 2: If a hard state happens at 21:59. Does Nagios wait until the 10:00 am of the day after to send the notification?
If the host recovers at 9:00 am of the day after is the notification message cancelled?

Thanks a lot in advantace.

Answer 1: The alert will appear in the logs, but no notifications will go out.

Answer 2: It depends on the timeperiods you have selected for the host or service
and each of the contacts. If they are all 24/7, you'll know immediately after the
hard state change. If they are on another schedule, you will know when they are
in an enabled time frame, providing that the hard state hasn't changed since they
entered a disabled time frame.