I am resurrecting this thread at the request of Andreas Ericsson. This quo=
te from another thread.
Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Would this be one adding a new variable to the object structs? If so, I'm=
not surprised it=20
> didn't get through, since that would break the ABI for all modules and th=
us require a minor=20
> version bump as well as a re-compile of all running modules.
That would explain why it was easier for us to transition; I don't think we=
're using any modules that scrape internal Nagios data (with the exception =
of the CGIs).
-Gius
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gius, Mark
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 5:33 PM
> To: Nagios Developers List
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] [PATCH] Distinguish between warning and
> critical notifications
>=20
> Mark Gius wrote:
> > Hendrik Baecker wrote:
> >
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> >> Am 18.11.09 01:02, schrieb Mark Gius:
> >>
> >>
> >>> The patch adds 4 configuration directives to service escalations
> >>> definitions:
> >>>
> >>> first_warning_notification #
> >>> last_warning_notification #
> >>> first_critical_notification #
> >>> last_critical_notification #
> >>>
> >>> Behavior is identical to (first|last)_notification, except that
> they
> >>> check against the count of warning/critical notifications instead
> of
> >>> the number of total notifications.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I really like this but what about unknown state notifications which
> >> might be used?
> >>
> >>
> > I thought of unknowns right after I sent the patch. We don't really
> > use them in our deployment, so I wasn't thinking about them during
> > implementation. It's easy enough to add.
> >
> >> What about hostescalations? Would you patch them too?
> >>
> >>
> > I was going to question the usefulness of this, but they can be both
> > "down" and "unreachable." I'll get an updated patch up sometime next
> week.
> >
> And now I'm done. I've done some sanity checks on this (retention, cgi
> behavior, notification behavior, objects.cache). I'm running this code
> on our testing instance now, and I'll report back if something awful
> happens.
>=20
> The Patch adds the following directives to host escalations
>=20
> first_down_notification #
> last_down_notification #
> first_unreachable_notification #
> last_unreachable_notification #
>=20
> Behavior is identical to (first_last)_notification, except that they
> check against the count of down/unreachable notifications instead of
> the total.
>=20
> I've also added directives to service escalations to handle unknown
> states
>=20
> first_unknown_notification #
> last_unknown_notification #
>=20
> -Gius
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