Long intervals for notifications

[mrkrupp]

Hello Nagios support,

I'm testing my notification intervals by bringing one of my servers up and down. It seems that when the server goes down, it is detected within the first minute or so from the web interface but it does not send a notification to my email till about 15 minutes later. Is there a way this can be lessened? I notice when it recovers I receive that notification rather quickly. When I view my list of hosts the First Notification Delay is 0h0m0s so I'm not sure why it takes so long for the nagios to queue the email notification.

Thanks for any help and insight you can provide!!

[rhassing]

I think it has to do with the following config:

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	max_check_attempts             	2
	check_interval                 	5
	retry_interval                 	1

This host is checked every 5 minutes.
If it fails it checks 2 times with an interval of 1 minute.

So it will take at least 7 minutes before the notifications is send.

[mrkrupp]

Where can I change those intervals?

[rhassing]

In the config files.
It depends where you installed them, but normally in /etc/nagios/hosts/, /etc/nagios/objects/ or /usr/local/nagios/etc/

[mrkrupp]

I am in my /usr/local/etc/nagios.cfg file and I do not see any field for any of these fields:

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  max_check_attempts                2
   check_interval                    5
   retry_interval                    1

Is that the config file you are referring to?

[rhassing]

You can set them in the host configuration.

[rkennedy]

@rhassing is correct -- with Core we allow you to structure things however you like.

Your definition will start with something like define host { or define service {.

[mrkrupp]

This worked for me! Thank you both for your help!

[rkennedy]

Awesome - going to close this one up then. Feel free to make a new thread if you have questions in the future.