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All,
I am very new to the world of Nagios; and our global IT team has deployed a local server to us and wished us well in our local management of it. I have managed to have the system send an email alert when a service check comes back as "Critical". I think it does this by default... my question for those reading this is - is there a way to send an alert when a service goes from Critical back to Warning or OK? I know Solarwinds in a past employer would send an alert when things were down; as well as when they are back up. Can Nagios do the same with some type of configuration change?

Thank you for any assistance.-JH

The answer to this question lies buried within the documentation around "notifications" and "state types":
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tions.html
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... types.html

The basic answer to your question is: Yes, Nagios Core recognizes a "recovery" as a state change and can dispatch notifications accordingly.

Nagios Core configuration objects (namely hosts, services, and contacts) offer a notification_options directive for determining which object is concerned with which types of notifications. In order to include notifications for "recovery" states, you'll need to include r in your notification_options.

More on that here (crtl+f for "notification_options"):
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tions.html

Thank you for the pointer. I added the host_notification_options d,r to my contacts.cfg file and the desired results occurred. Thanks again!

Thanks @mcapra!!

@KS_CL_SysAdmin Sounds like your question is answered? Are we okay to close this thread? Or did you have any more questions?

You may close this thread. Thank you - JH

Sounds good! I'll be closing this thread!

If you have any more questions, feel free to create another thread.

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