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I have some questions about the way notification intervals work with service checks and service escalations:

1) If I set a service to have notification_interval = 0, this will send only one alarm per notification_option?

2) If I have a service's notification_interval set to 0, how does that affect service escalations? Will the service escalation ever be triggered? Example, if I create a service escalation with first_notification=2, with a different contact_group than the original service check.

I believe you will need to set a notification_interval so the escalations will work. You can then use the last_notification directive in the escalation definition to make sure notifications stop after the appropriate time.