Adjust alerts email (send immediately on DOWN)

[nagiosnewb]

Hello All,

I'm a relatively "green" nagios admin. This system was just recently handed over to me(admin that was managing it quit) and I cant make heads or tails of it. I wish I had a real GUI I could adjust parameters with, but I don't know how to do that either.

The situation is that it works pretty good for when a server or something goes down insofar as sending out an email, but I have one workstation it monitors that takes over 8 minutes before I get an email. That's WAAAY too long. Most of the time we get the alert withiun 3-4 minutes for the other devices.

Anyway, my question is how can I adjust this alert timeframe for this ONE critcal machine so that I can get the email sooner than 8 minutes? I'd prefer to get it either IMMEDIATELY if a ping is not received, or at least within 2 minutes so I can get in the truck and roll to the site.

What I know is it says Nagios Version 3.2.0 on the Web Interface, and here is what I see when I log in via ssh:

Linux cicsyslog 2.6.32-45-generic-pae #103-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 7 19:19:23 UTC 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS

Welcome to Ubuntu!
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/

System information as of Thu Mar 14 16:41:14 CDT 2013

System load: 0.07 Processes: 111
Usage of /: 24.8% of 97.11GB Users logged in: 0
Memory usage: 32% IP address for eth1: 192.xx.x.xxx

Swap usage: 0%

can anyone PLEASE HELP...

[scottwilkerson]

Hello All,
I'm a relatively "green" nagios admin. This system was just recently handed over to me(admin that was managing it quit) and I cant make heads or tails of it.

Using Nagios Core on an already setup system can be daunting. You will need to find this particular host's configuration file on the server to adjust parameters...

I wish I had a real GUI I could adjust parameters with, but I don't know how to do that either.

We do have a version with a real GUI to adjust parameters
http://www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxi

If you are unfamiliar with how it works, you would also likely want someone to help make the conversion from Core to XI which is offered as a service as well
http://www.nagios.com/services/consulting

[nagiosnewb]

I dont know if its truly CORE or not. I just chose the CORE forum. How can I tell?

[scottwilkerson]

In the upper left corner is there an image that says
Nagios
XI

Additionally XI will look like this

[nagiosnewb]

This is what I have....

And by the way, thank you all for helping..

[slansing]

As Scott mentioned you will need to find the configuration file for the host you would like to change this on, you would need to set it's notification rate and you can follow this document on how to do so:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... ml#command

The host's .cfg file should be located in:

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/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts