Specifying which states to be notified about
In this recipe, we'll learn how to refine which notifications are sent by a host or service, and which notifications should be received by a particular contact. We'll do this by changing both the notification types that hosts and services should generate, and to complement that, the notification types that a contact should be configured to receive.
Getting ready
You should have a Nagios Core 3.0 or newer server, with at least one host configured already. We'll use the example of sparta.naginet, a host defined in its own file, which we'll configure to send only DOWN and RECOVERY notifications, ignoring other notifications such as WARNING and UNKNOWN. It will send notifications to an existing contact called ...
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