Email notifications setup issues

[luoyihui]

Hello Nagios Community!

I'm trying to optimize the email notification sendings in our nagios server. It sends too much email, by default.

So, I want nagios to send email notification ONLY ONCE and not more, during a service is in hard state. I find nowhere solution for this option.

Thanks in advance.

[benjaminsmith]

Hi!

Yeah, you can set it up to send only once, try changing the "Notification interval" to "0" (zero) for the particular host/service.

notification_interval: This directive is used to define the number of "time units" to wait before re-notifying a contact that this service is still down or unreachable. Unless you've changed the interval_length directive from the default value of 60, this number will mean minutes. If you set this value to 0, Nagios will not re-notify contacts about problems for this host - only one problem notification will be sent out.

I hope that helps, and let us know if you get working correctly or if you have questions.

Thanks for posting to the Community Forum!

Reference:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tions.html

[luoyihui]

Hi!

Yeah, you can set it up to send only once, try changing the "Notification interval" to "0" (zero) for the particular host/service.

notification_interval: This directive is used to define the number of "time units" to wait before re-notifying a contact that this service is still down or unreachable. Unless you've changed the interval_length directive from the default value of 60, this number will mean minutes. If you set this value to 0, Nagios will not re-notify contacts about problems for this host - only one problem notification will be sent out.

I hope that helps, and let us know if you get working correctly or if you have questions.

Thanks for posting to the Community Forum!

Reference:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tions.html

Hello benjaminsmith!

Thank you for your quick response.

Looks like it solved our problem!

Best regards.

[scottwilkerson]

Hello benjaminsmith!

Thank you for your quick response.

Looks like it solved our problem!

Best regards.

Great!

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