How to stop Warnings after 10 notifications

[petronagios]

Hi, does anyone know how to disable warning notifications for host & services after a set number of notifications? I found the $SERVICENOTIFICATIONID$ macro which counts the notification number but I'm not sure how to script it.

Any help much apprieciated.

I'm using nagios 3.3.1 and nrpe 2.12

Thanks

[nscott]

Have you considered using escalations? You would have to set it like so

define hostescalation{
host_name myHost, thereHost # Or you could use reg exp like * here
first_notification 1
last_notification 10
notification_interval 30
contact_groups important_group
}

Add then just have the default contact be some dummy contact.

[petronagios]

Many thanks for your reply Scott, it works!

I already have critical notifications configured to escalate to seperate groups, but following your instructions to create a dummy contact, and add the escalation for notifications (warnings only) starting at one, and finishing at ten works brilliantly.

Many thanks for your help.

[mguthrie]

Very cool, glad it's working for you!