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Posted: **Thu Jun 04, 2015 3:55 am**

Hello,

I would like to send a notification only in case of a problem. I don't want to send notification when it is recovery or flapping.

I tried this but it does not work :

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define command {
        command_name    notify-service-problem-by-email
        command_line    [ "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$" = "PROBLEM" ] && /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
        }

Any idea ?
Thanks

Posted: **Thu Jun 04, 2015 9:08 am**

Is there a reason you're not doing this in notification options:

Object Definitions wrote: notification_options:
This directive is used to determine when notifications for the service should be sent out. Valid options are a combination of one or more of the following: w = send notifications on a WARNING state, u = send notifications on an UNKNOWN state, c = send notifications on a CRITICAL state, r = send notifications on recoveries (OK state), f = send notifications when the service starts and stops flapping, and s = send notifications when scheduled downtime starts and ends. If you specify n (none) as an option, no service notifications will be sent out. If you do not specify any notification options, Nagios will assume that you want notifications to be sent out for all possible states. Example: If you specify w,r in this field, notifications will only be sent out when the service goes into a WARNING state and when it recovers from a WARNING state.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:08 am**

Thanks for the reply. Didn't know this trick. Works fine now.

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