Add ability to acknowledge with an expiration time for icinga hosts, vs ...

[deeno35]

...always acknowledging indefinitely. Default behavior is unchanged (ack forever).

[itsjohannawren]

David, PagerDuty has an acknowledgement timeout already. Is having Icinga also timeout necessary? If so, will Icinga fire a notification when the ack times-out?

[deeno35]

The usability problem right now is that setting an ACK in PD, acks nagios/icinga forever. If somebody subsequently resolves in PD (resolve all, accidental resolve, etc), I'll never receive another alert for that service unless it changes state. It's probably only an issue for me since I'm not using PD as my dashboard - I'm just using it as a paging service and I still go back to nagios/icinga for source of truth.

When the acknowledgement expires in icinga, it's the same as when a downtime expires in nagios. Icinga will go back onto continuous alerts based on notification interval and timeperiod for that check.

You do raise a good point though. I wonder if my customization is really only useful for how I'm using PD.

[itsjohannawren]

That's an interesting point. I think it could worth putting it in.