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Hi,

I noticed there is a bug but I’m not sure while configuring hosts through the Configuration wizard. When I select “Send Immediately” radio button in the wizard, “skip” is being selected in the notifications enabled section under the Alert Settings of Host/Service and it’s end up disabling the notifications.. How do I make it ON when configuring through the wizard?

Thanks
Ram

This is not a bug...

The “skip” part means that notification options will be inherited from a template. Notifications will be still enabled (on), unless you selected "Don't send any notifications".

"Send a notification immediately" means that there is not going to be a delay before sending the first problem notification.

Here's the documentation for the first_notification_delay directive (quote):

Service - first notification delay

This directive is used to define the number of "time units" to wait before sending out the first problem notification when this service enters a non-OK state. Unless you've changed the interval_length directive from the default value of 60, this number will mean minutes. If you set this value to 0, Nagios will start sending out notifications immediately.

Parameter name: first_notification_delay
Required: no

Hope this helps.