notifications when the notification_period opens

[TheCase]

Because of the way I have implemented PagerDuty, I have service notification_interval = 0

It seems logical to me, that if a service changes to non-OK outside of the notification window, and stays that way until the notification window opens again (9am, in my case) that it should notify then, as it has yet to send out *any* indication of a state change.

However, it does not work that way. I get no notification when the notification window opens again for services that went from good to critical when the notification window was closed (and stayed that way until the notification period was open). Is this by design? Am I forced to set a non-zero value for notification_interval? I really only need to be notified once for each service state change.

[jdalrymple]

I wouldn't necessarily say it's by design so much as it's just the way it turned out. You could certainly post a feature request or even write a patch to change the behavior. In the meantime my best suggestion would be to run a script that submits custom notifications for all hosts/services in a not-OK state at the point in time when you come off no-pager hours.

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[TheCase]

Thank you for the quick reply and information. I'll see what I can do.

[jdalrymple]

You could certainly post a feature request or even write a patch to change the behavior.

Seriously - do one of those 2 things. https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore. I agree with you that the behavior you seek is desirable.

Beyond that, can we lock this topic since there are no immediate solutions being presented besides what I posted?