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Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:26 am**

What's the best way for me to set notifications for all hosts to 5 minutes?

We currently have a server and 1 site down but nagios has quit sending out notifications for some unknown reason and this is pretty frustrating.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:09 pm**

You would want to set notification_interval to 5 on them:

notification_interval: This directive is used to define the number of "time units" to wait before re-notifying a contact that this service is still down or unreachable. 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 not re-notify contacts about problems for this host - only one problem notification will be sent out.

What does your objects.cache show for the host/service that isn't continuing to notify? Please post the definition.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:20 pm**

ssax wrote:You would want to set notification_interval to 5 on them:

notification_interval: This directive is used to define the number of "time units" to wait before re-notifying a contact that this service is still down or unreachable. 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 not re-notify contacts about problems for this host - only one problem notification will be sent out.
What does your objects.cache show for the host/service that isn't continuing to notify? Please post the definition.

This is one of the definitions for the host that failed to continue to notify. It only told us about it maybe 3 times tops and then stopped all together.

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define service{
        service_description             HTTP
        check_command                   custom_check_http
        use                             generic-service
        host_name                       webissues.foodchainid.com
        notifications_enabled           1
        check_freshness                 1
        check_interval                  5
        notification_interval           5
        }

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:27 pm**

Please post the service definition from your /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache so that we can see the final calculated service definition.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:32 pm**

ssax wrote:Please post the service definition from your /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache so that we can see the final calculated service definition.

I think this is what you are after?

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define host {
        host_name       webissues.foodchainid.com
        alias   webissues.foodchainid.com
        address webissues.foodchainid.com
        parents webissues
        check_period    24x7
        check_command   check-host-alive
        contact_groups  sysadmins
        notification_period     workhours
        initial_state   o
        importance      0
        check_interval  5.000000
        retry_interval  1.000000
        max_check_attempts      10
        active_checks_enabled   1
        passive_checks_enabled  1
        obsess  1
        event_handler_enabled   1
        low_flap_threshold      0.000000
        high_flap_threshold     0.000000
        flap_detection_enabled  1
        flap_detection_options  a
        freshness_threshold     0
        check_freshness 1
        notification_options    r,d,u
        notifications_enabled   1
        notification_interval   5.000000
        first_notification_delay        0.000000
        stalking_options        n
        process_perf_data       1
        icon_image      internet.gif
        statusmap_image internet.gd2
        retain_status_information       1
        retain_nonstatus_information    1
        }

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:52 pm**

This should send notifications every 5 minutes, but only during the time period workhours

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notification_period     workhours

If this is not all the times you want you would need to change the notification_period to be one that covers all of the desired times (like 24x7)

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:54 pm**

Yeah after I saw "workhours" I knew what the issue was instantly. Thanks for the advice.

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2018 8:26 am**

t3dus wrote:Yeah after I saw "workhours" I knew what the issue was instantly. Thanks for the advice.

Great!

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