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Is there a way to coinfigure NAGIOS XI to only send notifications if a service has failed for a certain amount of time? EX: If CPU Usage has exceeded 90% for longer than 10 minutes. I wouldn't need the notification if the service returns to a normal state within that 10 minute time frame.

Thanks.
-Nate

If you would like to wait 10 minutes before receiving a critical notification you can set the Retry Interval to 10 minutes that way, once a problem is detected it will retry the check every 10 minutes before sending a notification. Please see the attached image, the default check interval is 5 minutes, then the retry has been changed to 10 minutes, and after it retries the check once it will send a notification.

I'd to make a change like this on specific services. This appears like an across the board change. Can this be done just for specific services?

nlnieme wrote:Can this be done just for specific services?

Yep.

Go to service detail page for the service
Configuration tab -> Re-configure this service -> Notifications Tab

You can make the change there...

Additionally these settings are available in the Core Config Manager under
Core Config Manager -> Services -> Modify -> Alert Settings Tab -> First notification delay

Yes, if you want to do a bulk change and have access to Nagios XI Enterprise edition you can use the Bulk Modifications tool to change this.

Enter the tool, then select "Change a Single Config Option" From here you can select what option to change, and on which hosts and services.