Notify when service has been down for a specific period

[neworderfac33]

Good afternoon,

I have the following service definition that checks to see if the IIS service is up or down.

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define service{
       use                     generic-service
       hostgroup_name          my_hostgroups          
       service_description     Service -  W3SVC/IIS
       check_command           check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l W3SVC
       }

However, we often resync servers, meaning that IIS is down and is SUPPOSED to be down, until the sync is complete.

Is there any way in which I can only generate an alert status if the service has been down for a specified period, say 30 minutes?
Thanks in advance
Pete

[scottwilkerson]

Good afternoon,

I have the following service definition that checks to see if the IIS service is up or down.

Code: Select all

define service{
       use                     generic-service
       hostgroup_name          my_hostgroups          
       service_description     Service -  W3SVC/IIS
       check_command           check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l W3SVC
       }

However, we often resync servers, meaning that IIS is down and is SUPPOSED to be down, until the sync is complete.

Is there any way in which I can only generate an alert status if the service has been down for a specified period, say 30 minutes?
Thanks in advance
Pete

Yes. You will want to add the first_notification_delay directive
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ml#service

[neworderfac33]

Thanks a lot for responding - can I add this directive to the service definition itself?

And if I add it into a template, are there any other values that I need to change there to make it work properly?

Pete

[scottwilkerson]

Thanks a lot for responding - can I add this directive to the service definition itself?

Pete

Yes, it would look something like this:

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define service{
       use                     generic-service
       hostgroup_name          my_hostgroups         
       service_description     Service -  W3SVC/IIS
       check_command           check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l W3SVC
       first_notification_delay            30
       }

[neworderfac33]

That's brilliant - thank you!

Please can you close the thread?

Pete

[scottwilkerson]

That's brilliant - thank you!

Please can you close the thread?

Pete

Glad we were able to assist! Closed.