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Old 03-17-2011, 08:19 AM   #1
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Smile Nagios - Auto Acknowledging Alerts After many tries/sends notification


Is there a way to trigger Nagios to "Auto Acknowledge" any host alerts after x amount of times?

Sometimes system has been down in the mid of the night but no one really has responded to the notification which might mean bunch of emails flown through in each inbox within the department coming from these alerts.

Please kindly advise mates.

Cheers,
DB
 
Old 03-18-2011, 01:08 AM   #2
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While I feel your pain, that's kinda the point of a monitoring system. It should keep contacting you until you have acknowledged it. As a "solution" I would:

1. Change your notification_period to workhours or your own window of time.
2. Change your notification_interval to something like 3-5 hours. This way, you only get a few notices that the system was down.

My Nagios system is essential to my work so I have it send me notifications every 15 minutes until I acknowledge to ensure I wake up if there is an emergency. I have never received a second one. If something is down and I didn't wake up, people start calling immediately.
 
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Old 03-18-2011, 12:14 PM   #3
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While I feel your pain, that's kinda the point of a monitoring system. It should keep contacting you until you have acknowledged it. As a "solution" I would:

1. Change your notification_period to workhours or your own window of time.
2. Change your notification_interval to something like 3-5 hours. This way, you only get a few notices that the system was down.

My Nagios system is essential to my work so I have it send me notifications every 15 minutes until I acknowledge to ensure I wake up if there is an emergency. I have never received a second one. If something is down and I didn't wake up, people start calling immediately.
Thanks, notification_interval works for me!
 
Old 03-18-2011, 09:38 PM   #4
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Glad I could help!
 
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Is there a way to trigger Nagios to "Auto Acknowledge" specific host alerts as soon as they happen.

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Is there a way to trigger Nagios to "Auto Acknowledge" any host alerts after x amount of times?

Sometimes system has been down in the mid of the night but no one really has responded to the notification which might mean bunch of emails flown through in each inbox within the department coming from these alerts.

Please kindly advise mates.

Cheers,
DB
Actually I would be very interested in an answer to the original question .. nearly.

Is there a way to trigger Nagios to "Auto Acknowledge" specific host alerts as soon as they happen.

The reason for this is that there is a population of hosts on our network that we don't care if they are up or down and don't want to receive any alerts for (alerts are already switched off) but that we would be very interested in being able to use the availability graphs to see when they were up and when they were down .. after the fact.

At present I have it set so that they don't trigger alert mails, but they do still show up as "Down" on the Nagios network graph and on Nagvis. I still have to go in and acknowledge them in order to calm the graph down a bit. If there was mechanism that would preserve the availability information, but would not show up as purely "Down" on the graphs, this would save me a bunch of messing about. "Down but Acknowledged" is ok, but if there is another state that would do the necessary then I am happy to use it.
 
  


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