Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Chris Beattie]

On 1/3/2013 6:31 AM, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> In case it isn't clear: imagine three servers, alpha, bravo and charlie.
> Alpha and bravo are in the "AB" hostgroup; all three servers run Apache.
> If Nagios detects a problem with Apache on any of the servers, it should
> notify the apache-contact-group. If the problem is on alpha or bravo, it
> should also notify the ab-contact-group; however, if the problem is on
> charlie, the ab-contact-group should not be notified.
>
> Can Nagios do this?

Nagios is very flexible in this regard.

If your Apache service check definition contains a directive like 
"contact_groups apache-contact-group", try changing it to 
"contact_groups +apache-contact-group" instead.  This signals Nagios to 
add the services's contact groups to the ones the service inherits from 
the host, rather than replace them.

See "Implied Inheritance" and "Additive Inheritance" here: 
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Paul Dubuc]

Keith Edmunds wrote:
> Aim: to have any service or host notifications on a defined subset of
> hosts be sent to a specific contact group.
>
> Using host groups, we are able to send notifications of host problems to a
> specific contact group. We want to send notifications of service problems
> on those hosts to the same contact group.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a way to specify the contact group to notify
> for service problems according to the host group that the affected server
> belongs to.
>
> In case it isn't clear: imagine three servers, alpha, bravo and charlie.
> Alpha and bravo are in the "AB" hostgroup; all three servers run Apache.
> If Nagios detects a problem with Apache on any of the servers, it should
> notify the apache-contact-group. If the problem is on alpha or bravo, it
> should also notify the ab-contact-group; however, if the problem is on
> charlie, the ab-contact-group should not be notified.
>
> Can Nagios do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Keith

Take a look at Nagios Business Process Intelligence (BPI).  It might be what 
you need:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Components/Nagios-Business-Process-Intelligence-%28BPI%29/details

It lets you define a service that is an aggregate of any combination of hosts 
and services that you define.  All I think you would need to do then is define 
the appropriate contact for the aggregate services that you specify.


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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications question

[Bruno Martins]

Hi,

I have changed enable_environment_macros variable to 0 with no luck.
I have also cleared all services I had on service groups and still no luck.

Now I've changed debug level in Nagios to be in Notifications level, and I get 
this on /var/log/nagios/nagios.debug:

[1351859880.332512] [032.0] [pid=15799] ** Service Notification Attempt ** 
Host: 'RUMOSSRV_flxis01', Service: 'CPU Load', Type: 99, Options: 0, Current 
State: 0, Last Notification: Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
[1351859880.335799] [032.0] [pid=15799] Notification viability test passed.
[1351859880.335845] [032.1] [pid=15799] Current notification number: 0 
(unchanged)
[1351859880.335884] [032.2] [pid=15799] Creating list of contacts to be 
notified.
[1351859880.335914] [032.1] [pid=15799] Service notification will NOT be 
escalated.
[1351859880.335942] [032.1] [pid=15799] Adding normal contacts for service to 
notification list.
[1351859880.335968] [032.2] [pid=15799] Adding members of contact group 
'WISESRV-critical' for service to notification list.
[1351859880.336003] [032.2] [pid=15799] ** Checking service notification 
viability for contact 'helpdesk'...
[1351859880.350829] [032.2] [pid=15799] Adding contact 'helpdesk' to 
notification list.
[1351859880.353521] [032.2] [pid=15799] ** Notifying contact 'helpdesk'
[1351859880.353595] [032.2] [pid=15799] Raw notification command: my 
notification command
[1351859880.353730] [032.2] [pid=15799] Processed notification command: my 
notification command
[1351859880.555686] [032.0] [pid=15799] 1 contacts were notified.

And I get this on the /var/log/Nagios/Nagios.log:

[1351859880] EXTERNAL COMMAND: 
SEND_CUSTOM_SVC_NOTIFICATION;RUMOSSRV_flxis01;CPU Load;0;Helpdesk User;teste
[1351859880] SERVICE NOTIFICATION: helpdesk;RUMOSSRV_flxis01;CPU Load;CUSTOM 
(OK);notify-by-email;CPU Load 2% (5 min average);Helpdesk User;teste

Best regards,

Bruno Martins

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Sent: sexta-feira, 2 de Novembro de 2012 12:16
To: Nagios Users List
Cc: Bruno Martins
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications question

On 11/02/2012 12:53 PM, Bruno Martins wrote:
> Ok, I see that nothing appears on the log file.
> 
> Now, why? The command is the same for both services.
> 

Remove environment macros and get rid of SERVICEGROUP_NAMES and 
SERVICEGROUP_MEMBERS macros in the output. Also grep for 'Warning: '
in nagios.log.


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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications question

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 11/02/2012 12:53 PM, Bruno Martins wrote:
> Ok, I see that nothing appears on the log file.
> 
> Now, why? The command is the same for both services.
> 

Remove environment macros and get rid of SERVICEGROUP_NAMES and
SERVICEGROUP_MEMBERS macros in the output. Also grep for 'Warning: '
in nagios.log.

> I have Nagios embedded perl disabled.
> 
> From: Bruno Martins
> Sent: sexta-feira, 2 de Novembro de 2012 09:48
> To: Nagios Users List
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Notifications question
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There is no entry in maillog because I'm not using the default Linux mail 
> client, but a perl script called sendEmail.pl.
> I'm going to raise logging level to see if there's anything wrong.
> 
> By the way, I've checked and even two services from the same host (using the 
> same template) are giving me problems, since one service notifies me, but the 
> other doesn't.
> 
> I'm testing with custom notifications, but happens the same when I do passive 
> checks to automatically generate notifications.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bruno Martins
> 
> From: Ranjib Dey [mailto:dey.ran...@gmail.com]
> Sent: quarta-feira, 31 de Outubro de 2012 19:09
> To: Nagios Users List
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications question
> 
> 
> Whats the corresponding maillog output?
> On Nov 1, 2012 12:13 AM, "Bruno Martins" 
> mailto:bruno.mart...@gruporumos.com>> wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I have a server running Nagios 3.4.1 under CentOS 6.3 and I have spent some 
> hours trying to find why some (but not all) service notifications simply 
> don't get to my mailbox, even though they appear in nagios.log file.
> 
> This is my contact definition:
> define contact {
>  contact_name  helpdesk
>  alias  Helpdesk User
>  host_notifications_enabled1
>  service_notifications_enabled  1
>  host_notification_period 24x7
>  service_notification_period24x7
>  host_notification_options   d,r
>  service_notification_options  w,c,r
>  host_notification_commands   
> host-notify-by-email
>  service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
>  can_submit_commands   1
>  email
> u...@domain.com<mailto:u...@domain.com>
>  register1
>  }
> 
> This contact is part of WISESRV-critical group.
> 
> This host is sending out notifications:
> define host {
>  host_nameFLAGSRV_imagina
>  alias  DC da Flag
>  address   x.y.z.q
>  parentsRUMOSRD_rlxfw01-rumos
>  useServer
>  register1
> }
> 
> And this host is not:
> define host {
>  host_name 
> RUMOSSRV_rlxfs01
>  alias
>Servidor de partilha de ficheiros
>  address  
>   x.y.z.q
>  parents  
>   RUMOSRD_FLXSWCORE01
>  check_command 
> check-host-alive
>  use  
>   Server
>  contact_groups
> WISESRV-critical
>  notes
> rlxfs01
>  icon_image_alt 
> rlxfs01
>  vrml_image
> FileServer.png
>  register 
>1
> }
> And this is the host template used by both hosts:
> define host {
>  name 
>Server
>  alias
>Server Template
>  check_command 
> check-host-alive
>  use   

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications question

[Ranjib Dey]

Whats the corresponding maillog output?
On Nov 1, 2012 12:13 AM, "Bruno Martins" 
wrote:

>  Hello list,
>
> ** **
>
> I have a server running Nagios 3.4.1 under CentOS 6.3 and I have spent
> some hours trying to find why some (but not all) service notifications
> simply don’t get to my mailbox, even though they appear in nagios.log file.
> 
>
> ** **
>
> This is my contact definition:
>
> define contact {
>
> contact_name  helpdesk
>
> alias  Helpdesk User**
> **
>
> host_notifications_enabled1
>
> service_notifications_enabled  1
>
> host_notification_period 24x7
>
> service_notification_period24x7
>
> host_notification_options   d,r
>
> service_notification_options  w,c,r
>
> host_notification_commands
> host-notify-by-email
>
> service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
> 
>
> can_submit_commands   1
>
> emailu...@domain.com**
> **
>
> register1
>
> }  
>
> ** **
>
> This contact is part of WISESRV-critical group.
>
> ** **
>
> This host is sending out notifications:
>
> define host {
>
> host_nameFLAGSRV_imagina
>
> alias  DC da Flag
>
> address   x.y.z.q
>
> parents
> RUMOSRD_rlxfw01-rumos
>
> useServer
>
> register1
>
> }
>***
> *
>
> ** **
>
> And this host is not:
>
> define host {
>
> host_name
> RUMOSSRV_rlxfs01
>
> alias
>  Servidor de partilha de ficheiros
>
> address
> x.y.z.q
>
> parents
> RUMOSRD_FLXSWCORE01
>
> check_command
> check-host-alive
>
> use
> Server
>
> contact_groups
> WISESRV-critical
>
> notes
>   rlxfs01
>
> icon_image_alt
> rlxfs01
>
> vrml_image
> FileServer.png
>
> register
>  1
>
> }  
>
> And this is the host template used by both hosts:
>
> define host {
>
> name
>  Server
>
> alias
>  Server Template
>
> check_command
> check-host-alive
>
> use
> advance24x7-host
>
> max_check_attempts 5
>
> contact_groups
> WISESRV-critical
>
> notification_interval   60
>
> notification_period 24x7**
> **
>
> notification_options   d,u,r**
> **
>
> notifications_enabled1
>
> icon_image
> FileServer.png
>
> vrml_image
> FileServer.png
>
> statusmap_image
> FileServer.png
>
> register
>  0
>
> }
>
> ** **
>
> This host template uses other host templates, as the ‘use’ parameter
> states.
>
> define host {
>
> name
>  advance24x7-host
>
> use
> generic-host
>
> event_handler_enabled1
>
> notification_interval   60
>
> notification_period 24x7**
> **
>
> notification_options   d,r
>
> notifications_enabled1
>
> register
>  0
>
> }
>
> ** **
>
> …and  this is also using another host template:
>
> define host {
>
> name
>  advance8x5-host
>
> use
> generic-host
>
> event_handler_enabled1
>
> 

Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[FTL Nagios]

Marki,

 

I use the following host and service escalations to do exactly that.

 

It makes the first notification a text and email and subsequent problem
alerts email only, then an email and SMS for recovery

 

Don't know if it's the right way to do it but it works fine for me

 

 

define hostescalation{

 host_nameABC

 first_notification 1

 last_notification  4

 notification_interval  20

 contact_groups Website Email

 escalation_options d,r

 }

 

define hostescalation{

 host_nameABC

 first_notification 1

 last_notification  1

 notification_interval  20

 contact_groups Website sms

 escalation_options d

 }

 

define hostescalation{

 host_nameABC

 first_notification 1

 last_notification  4

 notification_interval  20

 contact_groups Website sms

 escalation_options r

 }

 

define hostescalation{

 host_nameABC

 first_notification 5

 last_notification  0

 notification_interval  0

 contact_groups Website Email

 escalation_options d,r

 }

 

define hostescalation{

 host_nameABC

 first_notification 5

 last_notification  0

 notification_interval  0

 contact_groups Website sms

 escalation_options r

 }

 

 

 

 

 

define serviceescalation{

 host_nameABC

 service_descriptionSITE TRAWL

 first_notification 1

 last_notification  4

 notification_interval  20

 contact_groups Website Email

 escalation_options c,r

 }

 

define serviceescalation{

 host_nameABC

 service_descriptionSITE TRAWL

 first_notification 1

 last_notification  1

 notification_interval  20

 contact_groups Website sms

 escalation_options c

 }

 

define serviceescalation{

 host_nameABC

 service_descriptionSITE TRAWL

 first_notification 1

 last_notification  4

 notification_interval  20

 contact_groups Website sms

 escalation_options r

 }

 

define serviceescalation{

 host_nameABC

 service_descriptionSITE TRAWL

 first_notification 5

 last_notification  0

 notification_interval  0

 contact_groups Website Email

 escalation_options c,r

 }

 

define serviceescalation{

 host_nameABC

 service_descriptionSITE TRAWL

 first_notification 5

 last_notification  0

 notification_interval  0

 contact_groups Website sms

 escalation_options r

 }

 

 

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From: Marki [mailto:jm+nagios-us...@roth.lu] 
Sent: 03 May 2012 16:45
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

 

 

C. Bensend  bennyvision.com> writes:

 

> 

> 

> > I am using Nagios 3.3.1

> >

> > I have got notifications by SMS working now

> >

> > Is there a way of defining what notifications go to email, what go 

> > to SMS and what can go to both.

 

I personally would also find it interesting for SMS alerts only to notify a
critical state *once* (even if emails are sent repeatedly due to
notification_interval greater than 0). The SMS notifications obviously
should include a recovery message.

Not sure how to do this without setting up two completely separate service
checks...

 

 


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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[Marki]

C. Bensend  bennyvision.com> writes:

> 
> 
> > I am using Nagios 3.3.1
> >
> > I have got notifications by SMS working now
> >
> > Is there a way of defining what notifications go to email, what go
> > to SMS and what can go to both.

I personally would also find it interesting for SMS alerts only to notify
a critical state *once* (even if emails are sent repeatedly due to
notification_interval greater than 0). The SMS notifications obviously 
should include a recovery message.
Not sure how to do this without setting up two completely separate
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[Yueh-Hung Liu]

have a try on this:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Notifications/*-Notification-Managers/Rule-2DBased-Notifier/details

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Nick Price  wrote:
> I am using Nagios 3.3.1
>
>
>
> I have got notifications by SMS working now
>
>
>
> Is there a way of defining what notifications go to email, what go to SMS
> and what can go to both.
>
>
>
> I would like this to apply to escalations as well if possible
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[C. Bensend]

> I am using Nagios 3.3.1
>
> I have got notifications by SMS working now
>
> Is there a way of defining what notifications go to email, what go to SMS
> and what can go to both.
>
> I would like this to apply to escalations as well if possible

I create two Nagios contacts for each person at my site, one for
email alerts and one for SMS alerts.  I then place the appropriate
contacts in each contactgroup, according to which type of alert
should be sent.

   Then, for each host/service, I include the appropriate
contactgroups.  For example, my Exchange servers' CPU services
get the exchange-admins-email contactgroup, which only sends
email to their contacts.  The Exchange servers' database
services, however, get the exchange-admins-pagers group, so they
get SMS'ed for database problems.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications for Services that are "Up"

[Jim Avery]

On 2 September 2011 15:59, Michael Loiselle  wrote:
> Is it possible to receive a notification for a specific
> service that is in the “up” position?

If you really must do that, then assuming the check is an active one,
then it should be pretty trivial to run the plugin from cron and email
you whatever based on the exit code.  All that is done completely
outside Nagios.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications for Services that are "Up"

[Terry Carmen]

Quoting Mike Lindsey :

> On 9/2/11 7:59 AM, Michael Loiselle wrote:
>> I am currently running Nagios 3.3.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 and everything  
>> is working great.  I am monitoring 30 Windows servers with  
>> NSClient++, and that is working as well.  Is it possible to receive  
>> a notification for a specific service that is in the "up" position?

Just to toss another fly in the ointment, it's dangerous to test a  
service by examining what Windows thinks it's doing. Many times a  
service says it's "up" but is actually dead.

It would be more reliable to write a plugin that would actually  
examine the service to see if it can/is actually working. For example,  
with a database, you can do a SELECT on a known quantity and compare  
the result to what it should be.

What specific service are you trying to monitor?

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications for Services that are "Up"

[Mike Lindsey]

On 9/2/11 7:59 AM, Michael Loiselle wrote:
I am currently running Nagios 3.3.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 and everything is 
working great.  I am monitoring 30 Windows servers with NSClient++, 
and that is working as well.  Is it possible to receive a notification 
for a specific service that is in the "up" position?  In other words, 
I would like to get a notification every 4 hours, confirming that a 
service is actually running.  If it stops on Friday evening, I do not 
want to wait until Monday morning to find out it is not running.  I 
would personally rather receive a message every four hours.  
Notifications are currently set up and working flawlessly, so I just 
need to know what I need to change in the config files to get this to 
work.  Any help is appreciated.
Not entirely sure what you're trying to solve here?  Generally it is 
good if you can get to a place where you trust your monitoring system.  
It should be telling you if something has broken, but if something 
continues to run well, the monitoring system should shut up and not 
bother you.


If it stops on Friday evening, you should get an email immediately (or 
as soon as Nagios notices it...)  If by "it stops" you mean "Nagios 
stops" then that's a separate problem - I have a secondary system that 
ONLY monitors my primary Nagios infrastructure.  If the primary system 
fails, the secondary system emails me - well, pages me, my secondary, 
all of ProdOps, etc.


TL;DR:  No easy way to have an OK service automatically email.  Nagios 
makes noise when things are broken, not when they're working.


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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications configuration problem

[Matthew Pounsett]

On 2011-06-02, at 01:44, Michael Vaknine wrote:

> I am monitoring some servers on a different site and usuing ADSL line for 
> this.
> I have problems with the ADSL Each time I get a notification that a server is 
> down and then after 5seconds I get a notification that the server is up again.
> Is there a way to configure a notification that Nagios will think that it has 
> a problem only if it is persistent more than 5 minutes or so?

For this you use max_check_attempts.   This tells nagios how many times in a 
row the check must be in a non-OK state before it sends an alert.  Combining 
max_check_attempts with the two interval settings (check_interval, 
retry_interval) determines how much time passes while those checks are being 
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications and Escalations and Notification_intervals, oh my!

[Martin Melin]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Mike Neimoyer  wrote:
> Hello, all!
>
> I'm trying to understand how notification intervals work when it comes
> to basic service definitions and serviceescalation definitions. Does
> Nagios disregard the initial notification_interval of a service
> definition, once it reaches an escalation, in favor of the escalation's
> notification_interval?
>
> Example:
> I have a service's notification_interval set to 15, so that once a state
> change occurs, a notification is sent out, then another after 15
> minutes, and another after 15 minutes, etc... With Nagios counting the
> notifications as they get sent.
>
> Now, I want to define an escalation for that service so that on
> notification number 2 Nagios notifies a different contact_group.  I have
> the notification_interval for the escalation set to 10 minutes.
>
> How does the notification_interval work in this instance, where the
> period is different?

Hey Mike,

If there is a matching escalation definition that will take precedence
over the service definition. In cases where you have conflicting
notification_interval values that are all valid, Nagios will use the
smallest interval.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/escalations.html

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

[Alberto Menichetti]

In my opinion it'useless in  this scenario; the official doc says:

Volatile services differ from "normal" services in three important ways. 
*/Each time/ they are checked* when they are in a hard non-OK state, and 
the check returns a non-OK state (i.e. no state change has occurred)... 

But in my setup passive services are never checked (they are  trap 
collectors,  and  my devices send  traps on state change).

Let's suppose this scenario:

1. interface Gi0/1 on catalyst switch goes down
2. the switch sends a linkDown trap to the manager
3. the manager decodes the event and submits the alert via nagios.cmd
4. the service associated with that switch changes it's state to critical
5. the contacts are notified (the first time)
6. that's all...contacts will never be notified again until a new 
linkDown trap is processed


Martin Melin wrote:

Just use the built in feature for this: is_volatile.

See http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/volatileservices.html

Regards,
Martin Melin

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Alberto Menichetti
 wrote:
  

Hi all,

I noticed the same strange behavior, but I don't think it's the right
behavior.
Operating in this way, a linkDown trap will be notified only once (in fact
the sender device will generate a single trap in response to state change).
Is it possibile to modify this behavior?



Hall, JC wrote:

After some testing, it looks like it will only re-notify after receiving
another passive check result.  It won't simply re-notify because it's still
in a non-ok state after the notification_interval has expired.  So to combat
this I just used the check freshness attribute to re-execute my external
script and feed the passive check result into nagios and thus re-sending a
non-ok notification at what would have been the interval for notifications.

So technically my external scripts are running at every interval to check
the freshnes, not only when it's called for by my event_handler from another
active service check...  which I'm ok with.

-Original Message-
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se]
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 5:00 AM
To: Nagios Users List
Cc: Hall, JC
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

On 11/11/2010 11:27 PM, Hall, JC wrote:


Is it accurate that Nagios will only send 1 notification for a
passive service check?

IE, the notification_interval definition for a passively checked
service won't instruct Nagios to re-send a notification such as with
actively checked services?



To be honest, I haven't got the faintest idea. An educated guess is
that it will re-send the notification if it receives another passive
check-result and enough time has passed though, or that it simply
re-sends the notification when enough time has passed.

If you try and find out, let me know either way and I'll amend the
docs.



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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

[Martin Melin]

Just use the built in feature for this: is_volatile.

See http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/volatileservices.html

Regards,
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Alberto Menichetti
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed the same strange behavior, but I don't think it's the right
> behavior.
> Operating in this way, a linkDown trap will be notified only once (in fact
> the sender device will generate a single trap in response to state change).
> Is it possibile to modify this behavior?
>
>
>
> Hall, JC wrote:
>
> After some testing, it looks like it will only re-notify after receiving
> another passive check result.  It won't simply re-notify because it's still
> in a non-ok state after the notification_interval has expired.  So to combat
> this I just used the check freshness attribute to re-execute my external
> script and feed the passive check result into nagios and thus re-sending a
> non-ok notification at what would have been the interval for notifications.
>
> So technically my external scripts are running at every interval to check
> the freshnes, not only when it's called for by my event_handler from another
> active service check...  which I'm ok with.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 5:00 AM
> To: Nagios Users List
> Cc: Hall, JC
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks
>
> On 11/11/2010 11:27 PM, Hall, JC wrote:
>
>
> Is it accurate that Nagios will only send 1 notification for a
> passive service check?
>
> IE, the notification_interval definition for a passively checked
> service won't instruct Nagios to re-send a notification such as with
> actively checked services?
>
>
>
> To be honest, I haven't got the faintest idea. An educated guess is
> that it will re-send the notification if it receives another passive
> check-result and enough time has passed though, or that it simply
> re-sends the notification when enough time has passed.
>
> If you try and find out, let me know either way and I'll amend the
> docs.
>
>
>
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

[Max Schubert]

Escalations can resolve this - if you set an escalation to trigger at
notification 1 and set a re-notify interval in the escalation you will
be re-notified at the set interval while the service remains in the
configured alarm state.

- Max

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Alberto Menichetti
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed the same strange behavior, but I don't think it's the right
> behavior.
> Operating in this way, a linkDown trap will be notified only once (in fact
> the sender device will generate a single trap in response to state change).
> Is it possibile to modify this behavior?
>
>
>
> Hall, JC wrote:
>
> After some testing, it looks like it will only re-notify after receiving
> another passive check result.  It won't simply re-notify because it's still
> in a non-ok state after the notification_interval has expired.  So to combat
> this I just used the check freshness attribute to re-execute my external
> script and feed the passive check result into nagios and thus re-sending a
> non-ok notification at what would have been the interval for notifications.
>
> So technically my external scripts are running at every interval to check
> the freshnes, not only when it's called for by my event_handler from another
> active service check...  which I'm ok with.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 5:00 AM
> To: Nagios Users List
> Cc: Hall, JC
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks
>
> On 11/11/2010 11:27 PM, Hall, JC wrote:
>
>
> Is it accurate that Nagios will only send 1 notification for a
> passive service check?
>
> IE, the notification_interval definition for a passively checked
> service won't instruct Nagios to re-send a notification such as with
> actively checked services?
>
>
>
> To be honest, I haven't got the faintest idea. An educated guess is
> that it will re-send the notification if it receives another passive
> check-result and enough time has passed though, or that it simply
> re-sends the notification when enough time has passed.
>
> If you try and find out, let me know either way and I'll amend the
> docs.
>
>
>
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

[Alberto Menichetti]

Hi all,

I noticed the same strange behavior, but I don't think it's the right 
behavior.
Operating in this way, a linkDown trap will be notified only once (in 
fact the sender device will generate a single trap in response to state 
change).

Is it possibile to modify this behavior?



Hall, JC wrote:

After some testing, it looks like it will only re-notify after receiving 
another passive check result.  It won't simply re-notify because it's still in 
a non-ok state after the notification_interval has expired.  So to combat this 
I just used the check freshness attribute to re-execute my external script and 
feed the passive check result into nagios and thus re-sending a non-ok 
notification at what would have been the interval for notifications.

So technically my external scripts are running at every interval to check the 
freshnes, not only when it's called for by my event_handler from another active 
service check...  which I'm ok with.

-Original Message-
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] 
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 5:00 AM

To: Nagios Users List
Cc: Hall, JC
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

On 11/11/2010 11:27 PM, Hall, JC wrote:
  

Is it accurate that Nagios will only send 1 notification for a
passive service check?

IE, the notification_interval definition for a passively checked
service won't instruct Nagios to re-send a notification such as with
actively checked services?




To be honest, I haven't got the faintest idea. An educated guess is
that it will re-send the notification if it receives another passive
check-result and enough time has passed though, or that it simply
re-sends the notification when enough time has passed.

If you try and find out, let me know either way and I'll amend the
docs.

  



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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

[Hall, JC]

After some testing, it looks like it will only re-notify after receiving 
another passive check result.  It won't simply re-notify because it's still in 
a non-ok state after the notification_interval has expired.  So to combat this 
I just used the check freshness attribute to re-execute my external script and 
feed the passive check result into nagios and thus re-sending a non-ok 
notification at what would have been the interval for notifications.

So technically my external scripts are running at every interval to check the 
freshnes, not only when it's called for by my event_handler from another active 
service check...  which I'm ok with.

-Original Message-
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] 
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 5:00 AM
To: Nagios Users List
Cc: Hall, JC
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

On 11/11/2010 11:27 PM, Hall, JC wrote:
> Is it accurate that Nagios will only send 1 notification for a
> passive service check?
> 
> IE, the notification_interval definition for a passively checked
> service won't instruct Nagios to re-send a notification such as with
> actively checked services?
> 

To be honest, I haven't got the faintest idea. An educated guess is
that it will re-send the notification if it receives another passive
check-result and enough time has passed though, or that it simply
re-sends the notification when enough time has passed.

If you try and find out, let me know either way and I'll amend the
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

[Assaf Flatto]

  Actually , the fact that the check is passive or active is some what 
irrelevant in this context.

The place that will determine the notification policy is you "central" 
nagios , and what you defined in your service/host notifications directive .
if you also define an escalation for that service - that will kick off 
the notifications .




On 12/11/10 12:00, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 11:27 PM, Hall, JC wrote:
>> Is it accurate that Nagios will only send 1 notification for a
>> passive service check?
>>
>> IE, the notification_interval definition for a passively checked
>> service won't instruct Nagios to re-send a notification such as with
>> actively checked services?
>>
> To be honest, I haven't got the faintest idea. An educated guess is
> that it will re-send the notification if it receives another passive
> check-result and enough time has passed though, or that it simply
> re-sends the notification when enough time has passed.
>
> If you try and find out, let me know either way and I'll amend the
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 11/11/2010 11:27 PM, Hall, JC wrote:
> Is it accurate that Nagios will only send 1 notification for a
> passive service check?
> 
> IE, the notification_interval definition for a passively checked
> service won't instruct Nagios to re-send a notification such as with
> actively checked services?
> 

To be honest, I haven't got the faintest idea. An educated guess is
that it will re-send the notification if it receives another passive
check-result and enough time has passed though, or that it simply
re-sends the notification when enough time has passed.

If you try and find out, let me know either way and I'll amend the
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications problem?!?

[Jim Avery]

On 14 October 2010 10:55, Gaertner, Joern  wrote:
> This is the normal procedure we handle checks (if they are important)
> - work hours -> sms + email
> - off work hours -> email
>
> But for this check the customer doesn't want to read emails first in the 
> morning to know if there were issues - he wants a sms if there was a 
> notification over night and if so he will read his emails.
>
> That's unfortunately the requirement ...


Some people are just so difficult to please!

I don't think there's anything in Nagios itself which will do that for you.

I would set up a different notification command which writes all out
of hours notifications overnight to a file, then have an ordinary cron
job which runs first thing each morning and sends the SMS message (or
sends a passive check to Nagios so it can send the message) if there
is anything in that file.

Alternatively, if you run NDO then you could script a plugin which
runs from cron each morning and does a query of the nagios MySQL
database to see if there were any notifications out of hours...

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications problem?!?

[Gaertner, Joern]

This is the normal procedure we handle checks (if they are important) 
- work hours -> sms + email 
- off work hours -> email

But for this check the customer doesn't want to read emails first in the 
morning to know if there were issues - he wants a sms if there was a 
notification over night and if so he will read his emails.

That's unfortunately the requirement ...


Cheers

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From: Jim Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications problem?!?

On 13 October 2010 15:42, Gaertner, Joern  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a nagios check that needs a special kind of notification.
>
> The check runs 24/7 but there should only be notifications during business 
> hours (8-18)  – so far no problem.
>
> But the user wants to also get a notification at the start of the business 
> hours if there was any problem noticed by the check during the 
> non-notification time.
>
> Is there an elegant solution of this problem in any of your minds?
>
> Cheers
>
> Jörn

Send the notifications out-of-hours by email.  The user will pick up the email 
when they login in the morning!

I'm sorry if that sounds a bit trite, but I've thought the same thing myself in 
the past and then thought duh!

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications problem?!?

[Jim Avery]

On 13 October 2010 15:42, Gaertner, Joern  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a nagios check that needs a special kind of notification.
>
> The check runs 24/7 but there should only be notifications during business 
> hours (8-18)  – so far no problem.
>
> But the user wants to also get a notification at the start of the business 
> hours if there was any problem noticed by the check during the 
> non-notification time.
>
> Is there an elegant solution of this problem in any of your minds?
>
> Cheers
>
> Jörn

Send the notifications out-of-hours by email.  The user will pick up
the email when they login in the morning!

I'm sorry if that sounds a bit trite, but I've thought the same thing
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications for a passive Nagios check

[wadud.miah]

I've found the "fault". It was the max_check_attempts, which I should
have set to unity!

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Sent: 03 March 2010 10:44
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] notifications for a passive Nagios check

I have a Nagios passive check which doesn't send out any alerts when
it's in a critical status:

define service{
  name  hpcsg-service
  register  0

  max_check_attempts3
  normal_check_interval 30
  retry_check_interval  1
  active_checks_enabled 0
  passive_checks_enabled1
  check_period  24x7
  check_freshness   0
  obsess_over_service   0
  notification_interval 0
  notification_period   24x7
  notification_options  w,u,c,r
  notifications_enabled 1
  contact_groupshpcsg
}

define service{
  use   hpcsg-service

  name  r89-service
  register  0
  contact_groupsr89

  check_freshness   0
  active_checks_enabled 0
  passive_checks_enabled1
  notifications_enabled 1
}

define service{
  use   r89-service

  host_name r89-trap.esc.rl.ac.uk
  service_description   hpd-crac-07
  check_command none
}

define command{
command_namenone
command_line/bin/true
}

The GCI shows that the hpd-crac-07 check has notifications enabled, but
when I "view notifications for this service", it hasn't sent any. We
have similar checks in place that do send notifications, but the key
difference here is that the above check is a purely passive one, i.e. it
only receives check results. 

Thanks in advance.


Wadud Miah
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications for a passive Nagios check

[Jim Avery]

On 3 March 2010 10:43,   wrote:
> I have a Nagios passive check which doesn't send out any alerts when
> it's in a critical status:
>
> define service{
>  name                                  hpcsg-service
>  register                              0
>
>  max_check_attempts                    3
>  normal_check_interval                 30
>  retry_check_interval                  1
>  active_checks_enabled                 0
>  passive_checks_enabled                1
>  check_period                          24x7
>  check_freshness                       0
>  obsess_over_service                   0
>  notification_interval                 0
>  notification_period                   24x7
>  notification_options                  w,u,c,r
>  notifications_enabled                 1
>  contact_groups                        hpcsg
> }
>
> define service{
>  use                                           hpcsg-service
>
>  name                                          r89-service
>  register                                      0
>  contact_groups                                r89
>
>  check_freshness                               0
>  active_checks_enabled                         0
>  passive_checks_enabled                        1
>  notifications_enabled                         1
> }
>
> define service{
>  use                                           r89-service
>
>  host_name                                     r89-trap.esc.rl.ac.uk
>  service_description                           hpd-crac-07
>  check_command                                 none
> }
>
> define command{
>        command_name    none
>        command_line    /bin/true
> }
>
> The GCI shows that the hpd-crac-07 check has notifications enabled, but
> when I "view notifications for this service", it hasn't sent any. We
> have similar checks in place that do send notifications, but the key
> difference here is that the above check is a purely passive one, i.e. it
> only receives check results.


Is the service still in a soft state?  Notifications are only usually
sent when the service goes in to a hard state.  If the passive check
is only sent once to indicate a critital or warning state, I believe
you will need to set max_check_attempts to 1.

To make sure your templates are being applied correctly, take a look
at what does the service definition looks like in your objects.cache
file.

hth,

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications not being sent

[Morris, Patrick]

Christopher Tyler wrote:
> First, thank you all for any help that you can provide.  Here is the 
> problem that I am having, I hope someone can help point out something 
> obvious that I have missed.
>
> 1) Hosts are being monitored just fine, status map shows red when a host 
> goes down, event log shows alerts like it should.
> 2) Timeframes are set for 24/7
> 3) All host and service notifications are enabled
> 4) email address is correct
> 5) All hosts services are, at a minimum, set for w,c,u,r
> 6) If I go to a service or host and click on the link "Send custom host 
> notification" it will send the notification without "forcing" it so I 
> know that the timeframes are being read correctly and this also verifies 
> the email address is correct and the mail send is working.
> 7) The event log doesn't show that it's even trying to send a 
> notification when something alerts.
>   
Take the "N" (do not notify) option out of your contact configs.

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications not being sent on host down/unreachable

[Marc Powell]

On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Noel Platzke wrote:

> So this is working now but I'm not sure why. I deleted the  
> objects.cache file and restarted and got a host down alert as soon  
> as nagios came up.

This tells me that nagios wasn't running with the configuration you  
thought it was (unless you also deleted status.dat, which may have  
settings overrides your object definitions). Seeing what was in  
objects.cache (and status.dat) might have explained the issue.

> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Noel Platzke   
> wrote:
> I included the template because the actual host definitions only  
> include the server specific information. I'm not overriding  
> anything. For example...

Then you should tell us this at the least. We're not mind readers and  
when you provide something that is incomplete, with no comment that  
it's known incomplete and why, we have to assume you don't know what  
you gave us. ;) IMHO, you (as in anyone reporting problems) should  
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications not being sent on host down/unreachable

[Noel Platzke]

So this is working now but I'm not sure why. I deleted the objects.cache
file and restarted and got a host down alert as soon as nagios came up.


On a whim I deleted the cache file and restarted nagios and it sent out a
host down alert. I didn't change anything else.


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Noel Platzke  wrote:

> I included the template because the actual host definitions only include
> the server specific information. I'm not overriding anything. For example...
>
> define host{
> use standard-host
> host_name   server1
> hostgroups  +servers
> alias   server1
> address server1.domain.com
> }
>
>
> The same goes for contacts everything else.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Marc Powell  wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Noel Platzke wrote:
>>
>> > My host, service and contacts are defined with the following
>> > templates:
>> >
>> > define host{
>> > namestandard-host
>> > max_check_attempts  3
>> > check_interval  15
>> > retry_interval  5
>> > check_command   check-host-alive
>> > check_period24x7
>> > notifications_enabled   1
>> > retain_status_information   1
>> > retain_nonstatus_information1
>> > contactsops
>> > notification_interval   15
>> > notification_period 24x7
>> > check_freshness 1
>> > freshness_threshold 300
>> > register0
>> > }
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is just a template and not a complete host definition. In fact,
>> they were all just templates and missing critical pieces of
>> information or may have parts that are overridden in the full
>> definition. You should post the entire definition for the host,
>> contact group and contact as found in objects.cache. At first glance,
>> you don't specify any notification_options for the host. With
>> Nagios-3, this will mean that all states will result in a notification
>> but under 2.x I believe that behavior is different. I'd go ahead and
>> specify the specific states to you want to receive notifications for.
>>
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications not being sent on host down/unreachable

[Noel Platzke]

I included the template because the actual host definitions only include the
server specific information. I'm not overriding anything. For example...

define host{
use standard-host
host_name   server1
hostgroups  +servers
alias   server1
address server1.domain.com
}


The same goes for contacts everything else.


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Marc Powell  wrote:

>
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Noel Platzke wrote:
>
> > My host, service and contacts are defined with the following
> > templates:
> >
> > define host{
> > namestandard-host
> > max_check_attempts  3
> > check_interval  15
> > retry_interval  5
> > check_command   check-host-alive
> > check_period24x7
> > notifications_enabled   1
> > retain_status_information   1
> > retain_nonstatus_information1
> > contactsops
> > notification_interval   15
> > notification_period 24x7
> > check_freshness 1
> > freshness_threshold 300
> > register0
> > }
>
> Hello,
>
> This is just a template and not a complete host definition. In fact,
> they were all just templates and missing critical pieces of
> information or may have parts that are overridden in the full
> definition. You should post the entire definition for the host,
> contact group and contact as found in objects.cache. At first glance,
> you don't specify any notification_options for the host. With
> Nagios-3, this will mean that all states will result in a notification
> but under 2.x I believe that behavior is different. I'd go ahead and
> specify the specific states to you want to receive notifications for.
>
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications not being sent on host down/unreachable

[Marc Powell]

On Oct 6, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Noel Platzke wrote:

> My host, service and contacts are defined with the following  
> templates:
>
> define host{
> namestandard-host
> max_check_attempts  3
> check_interval  15
> retry_interval  5
> check_command   check-host-alive
> check_period24x7
> notifications_enabled   1
> retain_status_information   1
> retain_nonstatus_information1
> contactsops
> notification_interval   15
> notification_period 24x7
> check_freshness 1
> freshness_threshold 300
> register0
> }

Hello,

This is just a template and not a complete host definition. In fact,  
they were all just templates and missing critical pieces of  
information or may have parts that are overridden in the full  
definition. You should post the entire definition for the host,  
contact group and contact as found in objects.cache. At first glance,  
you don't specify any notification_options for the host. With  
Nagios-3, this will mean that all states will result in a notification  
but under 2.x I believe that behavior is different. I'd go ahead and  
specify the specific states to you want to receive notifications for.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage

[John Andrunas]

After reading that, I realize that I had misinterpeted the u flag,
thanks I suspect that will help.

2009/9/28 Mathieu Gagné :
> On 9/28/09 1:00 PM, John Andrunas wrote:
>> I have a couple of remote sites, and when the link between the main
>> site and remote site goes down a LOT of notifications are generated
>> for hosts in the remote site.  I have all the parents set correctly
>> and it is easy to decipher what is going on when you look at the
>> overview, but the mass of email generated is not useful.  What config
>> change should I make?  It doesn't seem like removing the notification
>> option for unreachable is the correct answer but I can't think of what
>> other things would possibly fix email spam if you will.
>>
>
> Try removing 'u' from 'host_notification_options' in your contact
> definition:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#contact
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage

[Mathieu Gagné]

On 9/28/09 1:00 PM, John Andrunas wrote:
> I have a couple of remote sites, and when the link between the main
> site and remote site goes down a LOT of notifications are generated
> for hosts in the remote site.  I have all the parents set correctly
> and it is easy to decipher what is going on when you look at the
> overview, but the mass of email generated is not useful.  What config
> change should I make?  It doesn't seem like removing the notification
> option for unreachable is the correct answer but I can't think of what
> other things would possibly fix email spam if you will.
>

Try removing 'u' from 'host_notification_options' in your contact 
definition:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#contact

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage

[Menard, Chris]

Can you create a check on the 'link between the main site and remote site' and 
use that as a parent for all of the remote hosts?

-Original Message-
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Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage

I have a couple of remote sites, and when the link between the main
site and remote site goes down a LOT of notifications are generated
for hosts in the remote site.  I have all the parents set correctly
and it is easy to decipher what is going on when you look at the
overview, but the mass of email generated is not useful.  What config
change should I make?  It doesn't seem like removing the notification
option for unreachable is the correct answer but I can't think of what
other things would possibly fix email spam if you will.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage

[Martin Melin]

Sure it is. The official documentation has a great section on this, which
ends with:

"By default, Nagios will notify contacts about both DOWN and UNREACHABLE
host states. As an admin/tech, you might not want to get notifications about
hosts that are UNREACHABLE. You know your network structure, and if Nagios
notifies you that your router/firewall is down, you know that everything
behind it is unreachable.

If you want to spare yourself from a flood of UNREACHABLE notifications
during network outages, you can exclude the unreachable (u) option from the
*notification_options* directive in your
hostdefinitions
and/or the
*host_notification_options* directive in your
contactdefinitions."

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/networkreachability.html

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM, John Andrunas  wrote:

> I have a couple of remote sites, and when the link between the main
> site and remote site goes down a LOT of notifications are generated
> for hosts in the remote site.  I have all the parents set correctly
> and it is easy to decipher what is going on when you look at the
> overview, but the mass of email generated is not useful.  What config
> change should I make?  It doesn't seem like removing the notification
> option for unreachable is the correct answer but I can't think of what
> other things would possibly fix email spam if you will.
>
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[Marc Powell]

On Sep 24, 2009, at 3:42 PM, alexus wrote:

> this is from status.dat
>
> servicestatus {

Hrmm. Good as well... Certainly getting into the long tail of obscure  
issues now (unless I missed something)... Do you have any service  
escalations defined? Could they apply to this service? And to cover  
it, make sure you don't have multiple nagios daemons running at the  
same time (stop nagios, kill any that remain, restart nagios). There  
could be contention over the status.dat file with the values changing  
as each daemon wrote the file and you only see the values of the last  
one to write it.

Beyond that, my next recourse would be to enable debug mode and follow  
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[alexus]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Marc Powell  wrote:
>
> On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:05 PM, alexus wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Marc Powell  wrote:
>>> 2009/9/19 alexus :
>
>>> *From objects.cache* --
>>>
>>> host definition
>>
>> define host {
>
> looks good
>
>>> service definition
>>
>> define service {
>
> looks good.
>
>>> contactgroup definition
>>
>> define contactgroup {
>>        contactgroup_name       staff
>>        alias   alexusbiz corp.
>>        members dmitry chorine
>
> I haven't seen anyone use contact names with spaces in them but I'm
> not aware of any reason it wouldn't work.
>
>>> contact definition
>>
>> define contact {
>
> This looks good as well.
>
>>> the service notification command{} definition for the contact
>>
>> define command {
>
> Fine.
>
>>> all referenced timeperiod definitions
>>
>> define timeperiod {
>
> Here too...
>
> Nothing obviously wrong with the object configs that I can see.
>
>>>  From nagios.log --
>>>
>>> all entries related to this host or service around the time you
>>> expect
>>> a notification to be sent.
>>
>> -bash-3.2# grep dummy nagios.log
>> [1253764800] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: jothost.j;dummy;CRITICAL;HARD;
>> 3;CRITICAL
>> [1253807636] SERVICE ALERT: jothost.j;dummy;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;CRITICAL
>> [1253807696] SERVICE ALERT: jothost.j;dummy;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;CRITICAL
>> [1253807756] SERVICE ALERT: jothost.j;dummy;CRITICAL;HARD;3;CRITICAL
>
> Yet nagios doesn't believe that it's supposed to attempt a notification
>
>>> Also, verify in the web interface that notifications are enabled for
>>> the host and service and that it is not in a period of scheduled
>>> downtime.
>
> Did you check the web interface to verify that notifications for the
> specific service are enabled? You should also check under 'Process
> Info' to make sure notifications are enabled program wide
> (enable_notifications 1 in nagios.cfg).

through web i see notifications is enabled

if this would be disabled i wouldn't get any notifications, yet some
of notifications i'm getting and some not...

-bash-3.2# grep enable_notifications ~nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
enable_notifications=1
-bash-3.2#


>
> Both of these options can be disabled in the web interface. Since you
> appear to be using retention, those settings will be remembered
> between restarts and will take precedence over config file/
> objects.cache settings. You can see the current settings for these
> types of things in the status.dat file but using the web interface is
> usually easier.
>

this is from status.dat

servicestatus {
host_name=jothost.j
service_description=dummy
modified_attributes=0
check_command=check_dummy!2
check_period=247
notification_period=247
check_interval=2.00
retry_interval=1.00
event_handler=
has_been_checked=1
should_be_scheduled=1
check_execution_time=0.006
check_latency=0.221
check_type=0
current_state=2
last_hard_state=2
last_event_id=0
current_event_id=3158
current_problem_id=1526
last_problem_id=0
current_attempt=3
max_attempts=3
state_type=1
last_state_change=1253807626
last_hard_state_change=1253807746
last_time_ok=0
last_time_warning=0
last_time_unknown=0
last_time_critical=1253824786
plugin_output=CRITICAL
long_plugin_output=
performance_data=
last_check=1253824786
next_check=1253824906
check_options=0
current_notification_number=0
current_notification_id=0
last_notification=0
next_notification=0
no_more_notifications=0
notifications_enabled=1
active_checks_enabled=1
passive_checks_enabled=1
event_handler_enabled=1
problem_has_been_acknowledged=0
acknowledgement_type=0
flap_detection_enabled=1
failure_prediction_enabled=1
process_performance_data=1
obsess_over_service=1
last_update=1253824866
is_flapping=0
percent_state_change=0.00
scheduled_downtime_depth=0
}


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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[Marc Powell]

On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:05 PM, alexus wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Marc Powell  wrote:
>> 2009/9/19 alexus :

>> *From objects.cache* --
>>
>> host definition
>
> define host {

looks good

>> service definition
>
> define service {

looks good.

>> contactgroup definition
>
> define contactgroup {
>contactgroup_name   staff
>alias   alexusbiz corp.
>members dmitry chorine

I haven't seen anyone use contact names with spaces in them but I'm  
not aware of any reason it wouldn't work.

>> contact definition
>
> define contact {

This looks good as well.

>> the service notification command{} definition for the contact
>
> define command {

Fine.

>> all referenced timeperiod definitions
>
> define timeperiod {

Here too...

Nothing obviously wrong with the object configs that I can see.

>>  From nagios.log --
>>
>> all entries related to this host or service around the time you  
>> expect
>> a notification to be sent.
>
> -bash-3.2# grep dummy nagios.log
> [1253764800] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: jothost.j;dummy;CRITICAL;HARD; 
> 3;CRITICAL
> [1253807636] SERVICE ALERT: jothost.j;dummy;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;CRITICAL
> [1253807696] SERVICE ALERT: jothost.j;dummy;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;CRITICAL
> [1253807756] SERVICE ALERT: jothost.j;dummy;CRITICAL;HARD;3;CRITICAL

Yet nagios doesn't believe that it's supposed to attempt a notification

>> Also, verify in the web interface that notifications are enabled for
>> the host and service and that it is not in a period of scheduled
>> downtime.

Did you check the web interface to verify that notifications for the  
specific service are enabled? You should also check under 'Process  
Info' to make sure notifications are enabled program wide  
(enable_notifications 1 in nagios.cfg).

Both of these options can be disabled in the web interface. Since you  
appear to be using retention, those settings will be remembered  
between restarts and will take precedence over config file/ 
objects.cache settings. You can see the current settings for these  
types of things in the status.dat file but using the web interface is  
usually easier.

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[alexus]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Marc Powell  wrote:
> 2009/9/19 alexus :
>> why this won't work?
>> i dont get notifications
>>
>>
>> define service {
>>        hostgroup_name                  nrpe-disk
>>        service_description             disk
>>        use                             alarm,check
>>        check_command                   check_nrpe1!check_disk
>>        register                        1
>>        }
>>
>> define command {
>>       command_name                             check_nrpe1
>>       command_line                             $USER1$/check_nrpe -H
>> $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
>> }
>>
>
> You don't have notifications configured properly.
>
> Seriously though, this is not enough information to provide even a
> guess what you've done wrong. There are many more variables than what
> you've detailed here and nothing you've provided says anything about
> your notification configuration. For starters, do you have the correct
> notification options for the service? For the contact? Is the
> timeperiod valid for both? Is the service reaching an alertable, HARD
> state?
>
> If you want help with this, post the following--
>
> *From objects.cache* --
>
> host definition

define host {
host_name   jothost.j
alias   alexusbiz corp. (jothost)
address 64.52.58.58
parents jothost.j.gw
check_period247
contact_groups  staff
notification_period 247
initial_state   o
check_interval  5.00
retry_interval  1.00
max_check_attempts  3
active_checks_enabled   1
passive_checks_enabled  1
obsess_over_host1
event_handler_enabled   1
low_flap_threshold  0.00
high_flap_threshold 0.00
flap_detection_enabled  1
flap_detection_options  o,d,u
freshness_threshold 0
check_freshness 0
notification_optionsd,u,r,f,s
notifications_enabled   1
notification_interval   0.00
first_notification_delay0.00
stalking_optionsn
process_perf_data   1
failure_prediction_enabled  1
retain_status_information   1
retain_nonstatus_information1
}


> service definition

define service {
host_name   jothost.j
service_description dummy
check_period247
check_command   check_dummy!2
contact_groups  staff
notification_period 247
initial_state   o
check_interval  2.00
retry_interval  1.00
max_check_attempts  3
is_volatile 0
parallelize_check   1
active_checks_enabled   1
passive_checks_enabled  1
obsess_over_service 1
event_handler_enabled   1
low_flap_threshold  0.00
high_flap_threshold 0.00
flap_detection_enabled  1
flap_detection_options  o,w,u,c
freshness_threshold 0
check_freshness 0
notification_optionsu,w,c,r,f,s
notifications_enabled   1
notification_interval   0.00
first_notification_delay0.00
stalking_optionsn
process_perf_data   1
failure_prediction_enabled  1
retain_status_information   1
retain_nonstatus_information1
}


> contactgroup definition

define contactgroup {
contactgroup_name   staff
alias   alexusbiz corp.
members dmitry chorine
}


> contact definition

define contact {
contact_namedmitry chorine
alias   sprint
service_notification_period 247
host_notification_period247
service_notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
host_notification_options   d,u,r,f,s
service_notification_commands
notify-service-by-email,notify-service-by-pager
host_notification_commands
notify-host-by-email,notify-host-by-pager
email   xxx...@xx.xxx
pager   xxx...@messaging.sprintpcs.com
host_notifications_enabled  1
service_notifications_enabled   1
can_submit_commands 1
retain_status_information   1
retain_nonstatus_information1
}


> the service notification command{} definition for the contact

define command {
command_namenotify-service-by-email
command_line/usr/bin/printf "%b" "* Nagios
*\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
$SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAddit
ional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "**
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is
$SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
}

define command {
command_namenotify-service-by-pager
command_line/usr/bin/printf

Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[Marc Powell]

2009/9/19 alexus :
> why this won't work?
> i dont get notifications
>
>
> define service {
>hostgroup_name  nrpe-disk
>service_description disk
>use alarm,check
>check_command   check_nrpe1!check_disk
>register1
>}
>
> define command {
>   command_name check_nrpe1
>   command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H
> $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
> }
>

You don't have notifications configured properly.

Seriously though, this is not enough information to provide even a  
guess what you've done wrong. There are many more variables than what  
you've detailed here and nothing you've provided says anything about  
your notification configuration. For starters, do you have the correct  
notification options for the service? For the contact? Is the  
timeperiod valid for both? Is the service reaching an alertable, HARD  
state?

If you want help with this, post the following--

*From objects.cache* --

host definition
service definition
contactgroup definition
contact definition
the service notification command{} definition for the contact
all referenced timeperiod definitions

 From nagios.log --

all entries related to this host or service around the time you expect  
a notification to be sent.

 From maillog --

any entries related to messages for the contact

Also, verify in the web interface that notifications are enabled for  
the host and service and that it is not in a period of scheduled  
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[alexus]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Drex  wrote:
> Increase your nagios logging to include at least notifications, verify that
> notifications are at least trying to be sent out.   If you see the mail
> notification in your nagios.log, you should be able to run the exact command
> via command line.  Also to verify you check_nrpe1 command run the exact
> command from command line.   If there are syntax errors, you should see them
> via command line.
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Jim Avery  wrote:
>>
>> 2009/9/19 alexus :
>> > why this won't work?
>> > i dont get notifications
>> >
>> >
>> > define service {
>> >        hostgroup_name                  nrpe-disk
>> >        service_description             disk
>> >        use                             alarm,check
>> >        check_command                   check_nrpe1!check_disk
>> >        register                        1
>> >        }
>> >
>> > define command {
>> >       command_name                             check_nrpe1
>> >       command_line                             $USER1$/check_nrpe -H
>> > $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
>> > }
>>
>>
>> If you are using the standard check_disk plugin, I expect it needs
>> some options to tell it what the warning and critical thresholds are
>> and which disk you want to check.  Run "check_disk --help" from the
>> command line to see which options are required.
>>
>> Do other notifications work okay from your Nagios system, or are you
>> not getting any at all?  Can you send emails using "/usr/bin/mail"
>> from the command line?
>>
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my debug level is -1, which means debug everything... there is no
notification trying to be sent out thats the problem because if they
were it would be super easy to solve, the problem is nagios doesn't
generate any alerts to be send and thats where i stumble and need
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[alexus]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Jim Avery  wrote:
> 2009/9/19 alexus :
>> why this won't work?
>> i dont get notifications
>>
>>
>> define service {
>>        hostgroup_name                  nrpe-disk
>>        service_description             disk
>>        use                             alarm,check
>>        check_command                   check_nrpe1!check_disk
>>        register                        1
>>        }
>>
>> define command {
>>       command_name                             check_nrpe1
>>       command_line                             $USER1$/check_nrpe -H
>> $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
>> }
>
>
> If you are using the standard check_disk plugin, I expect it needs
> some options to tell it what the warning and critical thresholds are
> and which disk you want to check.  Run "check_disk --help" from the
> command line to see which options are required.

if it passed through NRPE, on the other side i can configure to work
without passing anything and the NRPE side will have all appropriate
parameters, plus nagios reports me disk usage so it's obviously
working the way it should

> Do other notifications work okay from your Nagios system, or are you
> not getting any at all?  Can you send emails using "/usr/bin/mail"
> from the command line?
>

and yes some of the services works fine and some aren't


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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[Drex]

Increase your nagios logging to include at least notifications, verify that
notifications are at least trying to be sent out.   If you see the mail
notification in your nagios.log, you should be able to run the exact command
via command line.  Also to verify you check_nrpe1 command run the exact
command from command line.   If there are syntax errors, you should see them
via command line.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Jim Avery  wrote:

> 2009/9/19 alexus :
> > why this won't work?
> > i dont get notifications
> >
> >
> > define service {
> >hostgroup_name  nrpe-disk
> >service_description disk
> >use alarm,check
> >check_command   check_nrpe1!check_disk
> >register1
> >}
> >
> > define command {
> >   command_name check_nrpe1
> >   command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H
> > $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
> > }
>
>
> If you are using the standard check_disk plugin, I expect it needs
> some options to tell it what the warning and critical thresholds are
> and which disk you want to check.  Run "check_disk --help" from the
> command line to see which options are required.
>
> Do other notifications work okay from your Nagios system, or are you
> not getting any at all?  Can you send emails using "/usr/bin/mail"
> from the command line?
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[Jim Avery]

2009/9/19 alexus :
> why this won't work?
> i dont get notifications
>
>
> define service {
>        hostgroup_name                  nrpe-disk
>        service_description             disk
>        use                             alarm,check
>        check_command                   check_nrpe1!check_disk
>        register                        1
>        }
>
> define command {
>       command_name                             check_nrpe1
>       command_line                             $USER1$/check_nrpe -H
> $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
> }


If you are using the standard check_disk plugin, I expect it needs
some options to tell it what the warning and critical thresholds are
and which disk you want to check.  Run "check_disk --help" from the
command line to see which options are required.

Do other notifications work okay from your Nagios system, or are you
not getting any at all?  Can you send emails using "/usr/bin/mail"
from the command line?

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications severely impacting Nagios performance. Ideas?

[Sean McAfee]

Ryan Bowlby wrote:
> How does everyone handle this issue? Obviously the notifications are a 
> bottleneck. Has anyone configured notifications to be dropped in a file or 
> fifo to be processed by an external daemon? Something like OCP daemon if 
> anyone is familiar with it.

I've experienced the exact same behavior on both 2.x and 3.x when remote 
sites go down.  Since each passive result takes 10s to time out, the 
queue just becomes so backed up it stops being useful.

OCP Daemon fixed it for me.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications severely impacting Nagios performance. Ideas?

[Arlen Drina]

Hello Ryan,

I do not know what is organization of your network, but maybe you
could take a look into service/host dependency.
It depends on your network organization, but I think it could help

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html

its purpose is to suppress notifications in case "main" host is down,
in such case you get only notification about that problem.

As I beleive that you have some gateway/router and in case it has some
problems you are getting many notifications, and I think it
is rara that many hosts have some local problem at same time

Hope this helps

Nice regards,

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> Hello Everyone,
>
> We are experiencing issues with Nagios notifications. Apparently when a large 
> amount of services become critical and trigger notifications the system all 
> but stops processing new service check results (passive). The "last check 
> times" in the web interface stop updating until notifications are disabled.
>
> Tailing the nagios.log file during this issue shows mostly notifications and 
> hardly any check results being processed. As soon as I temporarily disable 
> notifications - system wide - the passive check results literally fly off the 
> screen, and all the stale results in the web interface clear up quickly.
>
> How does everyone handle this issue? Obviously the notifications are a 
> bottleneck. Has anyone configured notifications to be dropped in a file or 
> fifo to be processed by an external daemon? Something like OCP daemon if 
> anyone is familiar with it.
>
> Obviously parent child relationships would prove useful in curbing the 
> notifications, but implementation of relationships is a while off (5 D.C.s 
> lot's a data to have to collect). Any suggestions would be greatly 
> appreciated!
>
> -Ryan B.
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>
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications severely impacting Nagios performance. Ideas?

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On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Ryan Bowlby wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> We are experiencing issues with Nagios notifications. Apparently  
> when a large amount of services become critical and trigger  
> notifications the system all but stops processing new service check  
> results (passive). The "last check times" in the web interface stop  
> updating until notifications are disabled.
>
> Tailing the nagios.log file during this issue shows mostly  
> notifications and hardly any check results being processed. As soon  
> as I temporarily disable notifications - system wide - the passive  
> check results literally fly off the screen, and all the stale  
> results in the web interface clear up quickly.

I can confirm this behavior, at least under 2.x. I haven't had a major  
outage under 3.x yet to see if it still happens. My previous  
speculation on the issue is at the link below. I don't have enough  
knowledge of the code to be certain that's what's really happening  
though. Since then, I've come to suspect that it might actually be the  
logic to determine who gets notified rather than the actual  
notification itself.

http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10803.html

> How does everyone handle this issue?

I tried backgrounding the notification script but that didn't help. We  
recognize that in the event of a major outage, we don't want to  
receive those notifications anyway so we disable notifications program- 
wide until the outage is over. Not a fix, per-se, but a workable  
process for us. It just doesn't happen often enough to really  
troubleshoot or spend a lot of time on.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications severely impacting Nagios performance. Ideas?

[Jim Avery]

2009/8/25 Ryan Bowlby :
> Hello Everyone,
>
> We are experiencing issues with Nagios notifications. Apparently when a large 
> amount of services become critical and trigger notifications the system all 
> but stops processing new service check results (passive). The "last check 
> times" in the web interface stop updating until notifications are disabled.
>
> Tailing the nagios.log file during this issue shows mostly notifications and 
> hardly any check results being processed. As soon as I temporarily disable 
> notifications - system wide - the passive check results literally fly off the 
> screen, and all the stale results in the web interface clear up quickly.
>
> How does everyone handle this issue? Obviously the notifications are a 
> bottleneck. Has anyone configured notifications to be dropped in a file or 
> fifo to be processed by an external daemon? Something like OCP daemon if 
> anyone is familiar with it.
>
> Obviously parent child relationships would prove useful in curbing the 
> notifications, but implementation of relationships is a while off (5 D.C.s 
> lot's a data to have to collect). Any suggestions would be greatly 
> appreciated!



If you have set retry_check_interval to a very low value compared with
normal_check_interval, then inevitably Nagios will be working a lot
harder if a lot of hosts are down at the same time.



hth (a bit),

Jim

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Grant Lowe]

Thanks, Marc. It was the former.



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Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 2:46:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications


On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Grant Lowe wrote:

>
> Well, I think I spoke a little soon, but in a weird sort of way.  
> The GUI is not showing unconfigured services, but I'm still getting  
> notifications about the unconfigured services.  The notifications  
> were just delayed.  What should I check now?

Most likely: you have multiple nagios daemons running at the same  
time; one with the old config and one with the new config.

2nd most: your mail server queued the messages for a long time  
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

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On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Grant Lowe wrote:

>
> Well, I think I spoke a little soon, but in a weird sort of way.   
> The GUI is not showing unconfigured services, but I'm still getting  
> notifications about the unconfigured services.  The notifications  
> were just delayed.  What should I check now?

Most likely: you have multiple nagios daemons running at the same  
time; one with the old config and one with the new config.

2nd most: your mail server queued the messages for a long time  
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Grant Lowe]

Well, I think I spoke a little soon, but in a weird sort of way.  The GUI is 
not showing unconfigured services, but I'm still getting notifications about 
the unconfigured services.  The notifications were just delayed.  What should I 
check now?



- Original Message 
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To: Eric Parker 
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Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 1:56:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications


Yes, Eric, ditto what Mark said.  Great minds agree :-).  Thanks for the help, 
guys.  Nagios is now back to its happy self.

I ended up doing the second one, to exclude certain hosts from the service.  
That way, I can include services and hosts as they come on-line, one-by-one


- Original Message 
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Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 10:01:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

ditto with what Marc said.

you can do something like this or remove hosts from hostgoup and specifically 
add the to the check_ping service check:

# perform service check on all hosts in hostgroup
define service{
    use                            generic-service
    hostgroup_name                  solaris-servers
    service_description            Ping
    check_command                  check_ping!200.0,20%!600.0,60%
    max_check_attempts              5
    notification_interval          60
    check_period                    24x7
    notification_options            w,u,c,r,f,s
    contacts                      glowe
}

# perform service check on hostgroup but not on the new servers
define service{
    use                            generic-service
    host_name                      
!server9,!server10,!server11,!server12,!server13,!server14,!server15,!server16,!server17,!server18
    hostgroup_name                  solaris-servers
    service_description            Secure Shell
    check_command                  check_ssh
    max_check_attempts              5
    notification_interval          60
    check_period                    24x7
    notification_options            w,u,c,r,f,s
    contacts                              glowe
}

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From: "Grant Lowe" 
To: "Eric Parker" 
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 9:24:47 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications


I just checked.  All added hosts are members of the hostgroup solaris-servers.  
Thanks Eric.



- Original Message 
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To: Grant Lowe 
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:46:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

Are the newly added hosts members of the hostgroup solaris-servers?

Thanks,
Eric

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Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:31:10 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifications


Hi All,

I've had nagios 3.0.3 on a linux box, going for several months now, checking 
swap, disk space, number of processes, and several other services on about 8 
UNIX hosts.  Last week, a fellow admin decided he wanted to add a bunch of 
hosts.  He added the hosts, but only added the check_ping service for the 
hosts.  But for some reason, nagios is doing the additional aforementioned 
services, not just ping, so now I have all these errors.  My services file 
looks like this:

define service{
use                            generic-service
host_name                      
server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8,server9,server10,server11,server12,server13,server14,server15,server16,server17,server18
hostgroup_name                  solaris-servers
service_description            Ping
check_command                  check_ping!200.0,20%!600.0,60%
max_check_attempts              5
notification_interval          60
check_period                    24x7
notification_options            w,u,c,r,f,s
contacts                      glowe
}

define service{
use                            generic-service
host_name                      
server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8
hostgroup_name                  solaris-servers
service_description            Secure Shell
check_command                  check_ssh
max_check_attempts              5
notification_interval          60
check_period                    24x7
notification_options            w,u,c,r,f,s
contacts                              glowe
}

Any ideas on why all the extra monitoring?


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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Grant Lowe]

Yes, Eric, ditto what Mark said.  Great minds agree :-).  Thanks for the help, 
guys.  Nagios is now back to it's happy self.

I ended up doing the second one, to exclude certain hosts from the service.  
That way, I can include services and hosts as they come on-line, one-by-one


- Original Message 
From: Eric Parker 
To: Grant Lowe 
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 10:01:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

ditto with what Marc said.

you can do something like this or remove hosts from hostgoup and specifically 
add the to the check_ping service check:

# perform service check on all hosts in hostgroup
define service{
    use                            generic-service
    hostgroup_name                  solaris-servers
    service_description            Ping
    check_command                  check_ping!200.0,20%!600.0,60%
    max_check_attempts              5
    notification_interval          60
    check_period                    24x7
    notification_options            w,u,c,r,f,s
    contacts                      glowe
}

# perform service check on hostgroup but not on the new servers
define service{
    use                            generic-service
    host_name                      
!server9,!server10,!server11,!server12,!server13,!server14,!server15,!server16,!server17,!server18
    hostgroup_name                  solaris-servers
    service_description            Secure Shell
    check_command                  check_ssh
    max_check_attempts              5
    notification_interval          60
    check_period                    24x7
    notification_options            w,u,c,r,f,s
    contacts                              glowe
}

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From: "Grant Lowe" 
To: "Eric Parker" 
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 9:24:47 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications


I just checked.  All added hosts are members of the hostgroup solaris-servers.  
Thanks Eric.



- Original Message 
From: Eric Parker 
To: Grant Lowe 
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:46:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

Are the newly added hosts members of the hostgroup solaris-servers?

Thanks,
Eric

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To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:31:10 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifications


Hi All,

I've had nagios 3.0.3 on a linux box, going for several months now, checking 
swap, disk space, number of processes, and several other services on about 8 
UNIX hosts.  Last week, a fellow admin decided he wanted to add a bunch of 
hosts.  He added the hosts, but only added the check_ping service for the 
hosts.  But for some reason, nagios is doing the additional aforementioned 
services, not just ping, so now I have all these errors.  My services file 
looks like this:

define service{
use                            generic-service
host_name                      
server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8,server9,server10,server11,server12,server13,server14,server15,server16,server17,server18
hostgroup_name                  solaris-servers
service_description            Ping
check_command                  check_ping!200.0,20%!600.0,60%
max_check_attempts              5
notification_interval          60
check_period                    24x7
notification_options            w,u,c,r,f,s
contacts                      glowe
}

define service{
use                            generic-service
host_name                      
server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8
hostgroup_name                  solaris-servers
service_description            Secure Shell
check_command                  check_ssh
max_check_attempts              5
notification_interval          60
check_period                    24x7
notification_options            w,u,c,r,f,s
contacts                              glowe
}

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Eric Parker]

ditto with what Marc said.

you can do something like this or remove hosts from hostgoup and specifically 
add the to the check_ping service check:

# perform service check on all hosts in hostgroup
define service{
use generic-service
hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
service_description Ping
check_command   check_ping!200.0,20%!600.0,60%
max_check_attempts  5
notification_interval   60
check_period24x7
notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
contacts   glowe
}

# perform service check on hostgroup but not on the new servers
define service{
use generic-service
host_name   
!server9,!server10,!server11,!server12,!server13,!server14,!server15,!server16,!server17,!server18
hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
service_description Secure Shell
check_command   check_ssh
max_check_attempts  5
notification_interval   60
check_period24x7
notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
contacts  glowe
}

- Original Message -
From: "Grant Lowe" 
To: "Eric Parker" 
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 9:24:47 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications


I just checked.  All added hosts are members of the hostgroup solaris-servers.  
Thanks Eric.



- Original Message 
From: Eric Parker 
To: Grant Lowe 
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:46:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

Are the newly added hosts members of the hostgroup solaris-servers?

Thanks,
Eric

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From: "Grant Lowe" 
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:31:10 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifications


Hi All,

I've had nagios 3.0.3 on a linux box, going for several months now, checking 
swap, disk space, number of processes, and several other services on about 8 
UNIX hosts.  Last week, a fellow admin decided he wanted to add a bunch of 
hosts.  He added the hosts, but only added the check_ping service for the 
hosts.  But for some reason, nagios is doing the additional aforementioned 
services, not just ping, so now I have all these errors.  My services file 
looks like this:

define service{
use generic-service
host_name   
server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8,server9,server10,server11,server12,server13,server14,server15,server16,server17,server18
hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
service_description Ping
check_command   check_ping!200.0,20%!600.0,60%
max_check_attempts  5
notification_interval   60
check_period24x7
notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
contacts   glowe
}

define service{
use generic-service
host_name   
server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8
hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
service_description Secure Shell
check_command   check_ssh
max_check_attempts  5
notification_interval   60
check_period24x7
notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
contacts  glowe
}

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

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On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Grant Lowe wrote:

>
> Yes, that seems like the problem. But the way nagios is setup, I  
> don't think I understand its setup.  I see in my templates a host  
> definition that has these lines:
>
> name  solaris-servers
> hostgroups  solaris-server

Any host using this template is added to the group 'solaris-servers'.

> In the hosts.cfg, services.cfg, and hostgroups file, this definition:
>
> hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
> alias   solaris-servers

For what definitions? This would only make sense for hostgroup  
definitions and is just creating the hostgroup container used by the  
host template above.

> It looks the problem is there.  But I'm not sure why.  Please help  
> me out.  Thanks, Marc.

>> define service{
>> use generic-service
>> host_name
>> server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8
>> hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
>> service_description Secure Shell
>> check_command   check_ssh
>> max_check_attempts  5
>> notification_interval   60
>> check_period24x7
>> notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
>> contacts  glowe
>> }

It's actually a combination. The service definition above says it  
should be applied to specific hosts (host_name line) *and* all hosts  
in the hostgroup 'solaris-servers' (hostgroup_name). Since the hosts  
are put into the solaris-servers hostgroup courtesy of their use of  
the template that says they should be, this service is applied to them.

If you don't want to apply this service to those devices, remove them  
from the solaris-servers hostgroup _or_ remove the hostgroup_name line  
in the service definition and specify the individual host_names that  
the service _should_ apply to.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Grant Lowe]

Yes, that seems like the problem. But the way nagios is setup, I don't think I 
understand its setup.  I see in my templates a host definition that has these 
lines:

name  solaris-servers
hostgroups  solaris-server

In the hosts.cfg, services.cfg, and hostgroups file, this definition:

hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
alias   solaris-servers

It looks the problem is there.  But I'm not sure why.  Please help me out.  
Thanks, Marc.




- Original Message 
From: Marc Powell 
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Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:49:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications


On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Grant Lowe wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I've had nagios 3.0.3 on a linux box, going for several months now,  
> checking swap, disk space, number of processes, and several other  
> services on about 8 UNIX hosts.  Last week, a fellow admin decided  
> he wanted to add a bunch of hosts.  He added the hosts, but only  
> added the check_ping service for the hosts.  But for some reason,  
> nagios is doing the additional aforementioned services, not just  
> ping, so now I have all these errors.  My services file looks like  
> this:


> define service{
> use generic-service
> host_name
> server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8
> hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
> service_description Secure Shell
> check_command   check_ssh
> max_check_attempts  5
> notification_interval   60
> check_period24x7
> notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
> contacts  glowe
> }
>
> Any ideas on why all the extra monitoring?

I see that you're applying service monitoring to hostgroups in  
addition to specific hosts. Is it possible that these new servers are  
in the 'solaris-servers' hostgroup or a different hostgroup that  
receives the additional monitoring?

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Grant Lowe]

I just checked.  All added hosts are members of the hostgroup solaris-servers.  
Thanks Eric.



- Original Message 
From: Eric Parker 
To: Grant Lowe 
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:46:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

Are the newly added hosts members of the hostgroup solaris-servers?

Thanks,
Eric

- Original Message -
From: "Grant Lowe" 
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:31:10 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifications


Hi All,

I've had nagios 3.0.3 on a linux box, going for several months now, checking 
swap, disk space, number of processes, and several other services on about 8 
UNIX hosts.  Last week, a fellow admin decided he wanted to add a bunch of 
hosts.  He added the hosts, but only added the check_ping service for the 
hosts.  But for some reason, nagios is doing the additional aforementioned 
services, not just ping, so now I have all these errors.  My services file 
looks like this:

define service{
use generic-service
host_name   
server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8,server9,server10,server11,server12,server13,server14,server15,server16,server17,server18
hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
service_description Ping
check_command   check_ping!200.0,20%!600.0,60%
max_check_attempts  5
notification_interval   60
check_period24x7
notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
contacts   glowe
}

define service{
use generic-service
host_name   
server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8
hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
service_description Secure Shell
check_command   check_ssh
max_check_attempts  5
notification_interval   60
check_period24x7
notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
contacts  glowe
}

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Giorgio Zarrelli]

Grant Lowe (gl...@sbcglobal.net) scritto:

> hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
> hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
> Any ideas on why all the extra monitoring?

Check wether the extra monitors are configured to hostgroup level. If you put
a host in solaris-server group and you have, let's say, disk check defined at
the hostgroup level, all the hosts in that hostgroup will have the disk check
applied.


Giorgio


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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Eric Parker]

Are the newly added hosts members of the hostgroup solaris-servers?

Thanks,
Eric

- Original Message -
From: "Grant Lowe" 
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:31:10 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifications


Hi All,

I've had nagios 3.0.3 on a linux box, going for several months now, checking 
swap, disk space, number of processes, and several other services on about 8 
UNIX hosts.  Last week, a fellow admin decided he wanted to add a bunch of 
hosts.  He added the hosts, but only added the check_ping service for the 
hosts.  But for some reason, nagios is doing the additional aforementioned 
services, not just ping, so now I have all these errors.  My services file 
looks like this:

define service{
use generic-service
host_name   
server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8,server9,server10,server11,server12,server13,server14,server15,server16,server17,server18
hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
service_description Ping
check_command   check_ping!200.0,20%!600.0,60%
max_check_attempts  5
notification_interval   60
check_period24x7
notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
contacts   glowe
}

define service{
use generic-service
host_name   
server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8
hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
service_description Secure Shell
check_command   check_ssh
max_check_attempts  5
notification_interval   60
check_period24x7
notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
contacts  glowe
}

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Marc Powell]

On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Grant Lowe wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I've had nagios 3.0.3 on a linux box, going for several months now,  
> checking swap, disk space, number of processes, and several other  
> services on about 8 UNIX hosts.  Last week, a fellow admin decided  
> he wanted to add a bunch of hosts.  He added the hosts, but only  
> added the check_ping service for the hosts.  But for some reason,  
> nagios is doing the additional aforementioned services, not just  
> ping, so now I have all these errors.  My services file looks like  
> this:


> define service{
> use generic-service
> host_name
> server1,server2,server3,server4,server5,server6,server7,server8
> hostgroup_name  solaris-servers
> service_description Secure Shell
> check_command   check_ssh
> max_check_attempts  5
> notification_interval   60
> check_period24x7
> notification_optionsw,u,c,r,f,s
> contacts  glowe
> }
>
> Any ideas on why all the extra monitoring?

I see that you're applying service monitoring to hostgroups in  
addition to specific hosts. Is it possible that these new servers are  
in the 'solaris-servers' hostgroup or a different hostgroup that  
receives the additional monitoring?

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications configuration

[Marc Powell]

On Mar 3, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Burton Simonds wrote:

> I am setting up my first nagios instance, and I am trying to figure
> out how to set up the notifications.   I would like to have any
> service that is a warning send an email, while any service that is
> critical send a page.  I can not find in the configurations where I
> can set that threshold.
>
> Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Nagios doesn't implement that type of logic. Some options that come to  
mind --

1) Create a contact per status. contact1 that sends e-mails only does  
so for critical services; contact2 that sends pages only does so for  
warning services.
2) Have one contact but multiple notification commands  
(service_notification_commands service-notify-by-email,service-notify- 
by-pager). -by-email and -by-pager contain simple logic to only work  
for critical or warning respectively.
3) Create one contact with one notification command. That notification  
command contains the simple logic to send an e-mail or send a page  
depending on the notification type.
4) ...
5) Profit!

This kind of configuration is discussed somewhat frequently on the  
list. The archives might provide more information.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications only to service contacts, not to host contacts?

[Christian Schneemann]

On Monday February 16 2009 03:13:00 pm Marc Powell wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Christian Schneemann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have some services defined, that are just interesting for some
> > people,
> > especially not for all contacts defined for the host. So the service
> > has a
> > single contact defined.
>
[...]
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
>
> Who are the host contacts? Please post the entire host and service
> definitions, including the templates with the important bits. You
> might want to grab the definitions from objects.cache.
Thanks for the hint with the objects.cache.
The contact_group is defined in the template for the service.

so a 
define service {
...
contactscontact1
contact_groups  
}
unsets the value and I hope it will work now.

Thanks for helping :)



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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications only to service contacts, not to host contacts?

[Marc Powell]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Christian Schneemann wrote:

> Hi,
> I have some services defined, that are just interesting for some  
> people,
> especially not for all contacts defined for the host. So the service  
> has a
> single contact defined.

Nagios expects this kind of notification granularity.

> Now the problem is, that the notifications are not only send to the  
> contact
> defined for this service, they are also send to the contacts  
> (contact_group)
> defined for the host this service is defined for.

Nagios will not do this unless you specifically configure it to do so.  
Nagios has been told that it should.

Are they service notifications or host notifications? Is there  
anything else unusual about the notifications or their content? What  
does nagios.log show related to these notifications?

> The contact_group is defined for this host in the host-template.
>
> define service{
>
>contactscontact1
>}
>
> define host{
>use example-template
>host_name   hostname.example.org
>alias   example host
>address hostname.example.org
>hostgroups  example-hosts, check_zypper
>}
>
> What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?

Who are the host contacts? Please post the entire host and service  
definitions, including the templates with the important bits. You  
might want to grab the definitions from objects.cache.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications to unknown user for services with disabled notify

[Markus Schreier]

Hello Marc,
thanks for your reply. 
yes you are wright. My notify-commands are put in as event-handler for all 
hosts and all services. I will just remove the event_handler line. I also set 
event_handler_enabled to 0 and all should be fine.

Again, thank you

best regards,
Markus

I put in a host and a service definition, just to be complete:
define  host {
host_name   hostname.domain.de
alias   Serviceportal VIP
address x.y.z
parents kp-sp-proxy
check_command   check_http_proxy_ping
max_check_attempts  3
active_checks_enabled   1
passive_checks_enabled  0
check_period24x7
obsess_over_host1
check_freshness 1
event_handler   notify-host-by-email
event_handler_enabled   1
flap_detection_enabled  1
failure_prediction_enabled  1
process_perf_data   0
retain_status_information   1
retain_nonstatus_information1
contact_groups  nagios-admins,ServiceCenter,ziv-admins
notification_interval   60
notification_period arbeitszeitrufbereit
notification_optionsd,u,r,f
notifications_enabled   1
register1
}

define  service {
host_name   hostname.domain.de
service_description Serviceportal Login VIP
servicegroups   webbased
is_volatile 0
check_command   
check_serviceplattform!serviceplattform_eprtlogin.conf
max_check_attempts  3
normal_check_interval   5
retry_check_interval2
active_checks_enabled   1
passive_checks_enabled  0
check_period24x7
parallelize_check   1
obsess_over_service 1
check_freshness 0
event_handler   notify-service-by-email
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> Datum: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:21:28 -0600
> Von: Marc Powell 
> An: nagios-users Mailinglist 
> Betreff: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications to unknown user for services with   
> disabled notify

> 
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 3:46 AM, Markus Schreier wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > i'm new to the list even though i'm not new to nagios. I've taken  
> > over an installation on an ubuntu -linux  and made local emails (to  
> > root or to nagios) being forwarded to some administration account.  
> > This made me realize some enormous email-traffic:
> 
> Hello and welcome. =)
> 
> >
> > My nagios-service sends notify-mails to the Mailadresse "$" on the  
> > local host.  This happens even for services with disabled  
> > notifications.
> > Host and service-notifications are affected.
> 
> 
> > Why are there notifications being send if disabled for this service?
> > Where does the mailadress $ come from?
> 
> A complete example host and service definition would be helpful. My  
> guess is that you have your notification commands specified as an  
> event_handler.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.user/58877
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications to unknown user for services with disabled notify

[Marc Powell]

On Jan 16, 2009, at 3:46 AM, Markus Schreier wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> i'm new to the list even though i'm not new to nagios. I've taken  
> over an installation on an ubuntu -linux  and made local emails (to  
> root or to nagios) being forwarded to some administration account.  
> This made me realize some enormous email-traffic:

Hello and welcome. =)

>
> My nagios-service sends notify-mails to the Mailadresse "$" on the  
> local host.  This happens even for services with disabled  
> notifications.
> Host and service-notifications are affected.


> Why are there notifications being send if disabled for this service?
> Where does the mailadress $ come from?

A complete example host and service definition would be helpful. My  
guess is that you have your notification commands specified as an  
event_handler.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.user/58877

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications not working [was: Re: '$' symbol being appended to command_line?]

[Alexis Hazell]

On 11:27:09 Thu 08-Jan-09, Alexis Hazell wrote:
> Doing this showed that you are correct about it being a permissions
> issue: nagios is running as user 'nagios' and group 'nagios', but
> the /bin/mail and /usr/bin/freetalk commands are being run in an
> environment where it seems that HOME=/root/ - the commands attempt to
> access /root/.esmtprc and /root/.freetalk/, respectively, rather than
> attempting to access /var/log/nagios/.esmtprc and
> /var/log/nagios/.freetalk/ (where /var/log/nagios is HOME for user
> nagios).
> 
> Obvious kludges are:
> 
> * copy the respective dot files to /root/ and either chmod them o+r
> or chown them root.nagios;
> 
> * modify the command_line to use sudo to ensure /bin/mail and
> /usr/bin/freetalk are run as user 'nagios'.
> 
> But surely there's a better alternative? What am i missing?

Okay, for future reference for anyone else who might face the same
problem, i couldn't get either of the above kludges to work. Instead,
what worked was setting the HOME var:

command_lineecho 'Nagios notification --- Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$, 
Service: $SERVICEDESC$, Host: $HOSTALIAS$, Address: $HOSTADDRESS$, State: 
$SERVICESTATE$, Date/Time: $LONGDATETIME$, Additional Info: $SERVICEOUTPUT$' | 
HOME=/var/log/nagios /usr/bin/freetalk -s /var/log/nagios/notify.scm

where the contents of /var/log/nagios/notify.scm are:

(use-modules (ice-9 rdelim))

(define msg (read-line))

(ft-set-jid! "[sender-JID]")
(ft-set-server! "talk.google.com")
(ft-set-password! "[sender-password]")
(ft-set-sslconn! #t)
(ft-set-port! 5223)

(if (ft-login-blocking)
(begin
(ft-send-message "[recipient-JID]" msg)
(ft-disconnect))
(display "Could not connect\n"))


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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications not working [was: Re: '$' symbol being appended to command_line?]

[Alexis Hazell]

On 07:28:01 Wed 07-Jan-09, Marc Powell wrote:
> What's the real command_line that you're using for notifications?

For email:

command_line/usr/bin/printf "%b" "* Nagios *\n\nNotification 
Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: 
$HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional 
Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: 
$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$

For XMPP:

command_line/usr/bin/printf "%b" "* Nagios *\n\nNotification 
Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: 
$HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional 
Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/freetalk -s /var/log/nagios/notify.scm


> You could also redirect STDOUT/STDERR to a file to see if anything is  
> being reported there by adding '>/tmp/output.txt 2>&1' to the end of  
> the command_line.

Doing this showed that you are correct about it being a permissions
issue: nagios is running as user 'nagios' and group 'nagios', but
the /bin/mail and /usr/bin/freetalk commands are being run in an
environment where it seems that HOME=/root/ - the commands attempt to
access /root/.esmtprc and /root/.freetalk/, respectively, rather than
attempting to access /var/log/nagios/.esmtprc and
/var/log/nagios/.freetalk/ (where /var/log/nagios is HOME for user
nagios).

Obvious kludges are:

* copy the respective dot files to /root/ and either chmod them o+r
or chown them root.nagios;

* modify the command_line to use sudo to ensure /bin/mail and
/usr/bin/freetalk are run as user 'nagios'.

But surely there's a better alternative? What am i missing?


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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications not working [was: Re: '$' symbol being appended to command_line?]

[Marc Powell]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 4:48 AM, Alexis Hazell wrote:

> On 22:56:13 Tue 06-Jan-09, Marc Powell wrote:
>> Does your mail log on the nagios host show the message
>> being received and then sent further on?
>
> i created a wrapper shell script around esmtp to allow me to call
> it with the -X option, which allows one to log all mail traffic to
> a file. Running the contents of command_line manually whilst su'd to
> user 'nagios' works, with the log file containing the expected traffic
> info. But when command_line is called by nagios itself as part of
> the notification process, the log file is empty (and despite the '-v'
> [i.e. verbose] option being used in the wrapper script).

> Any suggestions as to what's going on here would be very much
> appreciated!

What's the real command_line that you're using for notifications? It  
sounds to me like a permissions or path issue. Either nagios isn't  
allowed to execute the program or can't find it. Ensure that  
permissions are correct on the program and directories above and that  
you're using /fully/qualified/paths everywhere.

You could also redirect STDOUT/STDERR to a file to see if anything is  
being reported there by adding '>/tmp/output.txt 2>&1' to the end of  
the command_line.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications of Children

[Marc Powell]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Sam Stelfox wrote:

> After searching both google and to the extent I was able to the  
> archive
> (it kept timing out when I'd run a search). I'm asking these two
> questions to the list.

Thanks for researching first!

> It's my understanding that if nagios can not talk to a service, ...

Correct.

> I turned off unreachable notifications, but nagios thinks that some of
> the children are in a "down" state while a couple of them say  
> "unreachable".
>
> Why does nagios consider some "down" and some "unreachable" (they are
> all using the same template only thing different is there name's and
> addresses and the parents have the same template as well).

What is the state of the immediate parent of a 'down' host? Are you  
sure it's parent is what you think it is? I would say that the 'down'  
host either has no parent or the parent's status is 'ok', or was at  
the time the on-demand check happened. If you're using nagios-3,  
cached host checks could certainly be at play here --

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/cachedchecks.html

> Why does nagios still send notifications for the children?

For which, down or unreachable? Based on your disabling of unreachable  
notifications, you should not receive those. You may receive down  
notifications if you've elected to receive those.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications if a servicegroup is down on more than 1 server

[Joerg Linge]

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> Hi,
>  
> I have a strange
> configuration that I have to applied to my Nagios and I cannot find the way to
> do it.
>  
> Since I
> have a load balancer that monitor the apache status on the servers, I don’t
> want to send alerts if one of then is DOWN, I prefer to wait until I have at
> least 2 of them DOWN and specific services on them.
>  
> For
> example: I have 5 hosts with 5 services each.
>  
> I want to send
> notifications of Critical if:
>   --- Service 1, Service 2, and Service 3 are
> DOWN on at least 2 of the 5 hosts.
>  
>  
> Someone
> knows if it is possible and how to apply it on Nagios 2?

Have a look on check_cluster

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/clusters.html

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications if a servicegroup is down on more than 1 server

[Dale J. Chatham]

I'd probably write a check that doesn't send any notifications when an 
apache server is down, but that increments a counter in a file 
somewhere. Another service to monitor the file and alarm if over some 
number, in your case 2.

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>  
> I have a strange
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> do it.
>  
> Since I
> have a load balancer that monitor the apache status on the servers, I don’t
> want to send alerts if one of then is DOWN, I prefer to wait until I have at
> least 2 of them DOWN and specific services on them.
>  
> For
> example: I have 5 hosts with 5 services each.
>  
> I want to send
> notifications of Critical if:
>   --- Service 1, Service 2, and Service 3 are
> DOWN on at least 2 of the 5 hosts.
>  
>  
> Someone
> knows if it is possible and how to apply it on Nagios 2?
>
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[James]

On Tue, September 23, 2008 10:18 am, Traiano Welcome wrote:
> Hi James
>
>
20080923 - 0.02 hour - stale cpServer lock
> If you grep your main nagios log for the hostname you'll be able to see
> the results of nagios checks on the host, and whether the host was
> detected as up or not. It's likely that flap detection suppressed the
> notifications.

There host is up but there was never a host up notification (there was a
host down notification).

>
> Thanks,
> Traiano
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tue 9/23/2008 3:36 PM
> To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] notifications
>
>
> I got a host down notification but no host up notification.
> I had flapping detection on the host but no notification on the contact.
> I wonder if the host was detected as flapping which is why there was no
> host up notification.
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[Traiano Welcome]

Hi James

If you grep your main nagios log for the hostname you'll be able to see the 
results of nagios checks on the host, and whether the host was detected as up 
or not. It's likely that flap detection suppressed the notifications.

Thanks,
Traiano


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I got a host down notification but no host up notification.
I had flapping detection on the host but no notification on the contact.
I wonder if the host was detected as flapping which is why there was no
host up notification.



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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications are sent, even if Notifications are diabled.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Klaus Umbach wrote:
> 2008/9/16 Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
>> On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:37 AM, Klaus Umbach wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have the following problem: The notifications for a host are
>>> disabled, but I get the "host down" and th "host up" for the host...
>>>
>>> This does not seem to happen with all hosts...
>> Without specific config snippets and assuming that they're really
>> disabled, my only suggestion would be to verify that you don't have
>> multiple nagios daemons running...
> 
> 
> Here are the snipplets.
> This HOST gets rebooted every night at 5am, and I get the notifications,
> although the timeperiod is set.
> 

For misconfiguration issues:
Are the two machines synced to the same NTP server?
When do the alerts go out (wallclock time)?
What does Nagios think the time is by then?
Have you (stupid, yes I know) reloaded the configuration since you
modified it?
If you're using Nagios 3 with precached configuration, have you
regenerated the precache since you modified it?

For bughunting issues (assumes all of the above are "yes" or
"inside the specified timeperiod"):
Are you using escalations?
Are you using timeperiods with 'exclude' directive, excluding the
mentioned timeperiod (any timeperiod)?
Are you using timeperiods with exceptions (any timeperiod)?

If the misconfiguration checkup is ok, please send me your config
and I'll see what I can get out of it.

> 
> define host {
> host_nameHOST
> aliaseasy-xbase
> addressIP_ADDRESS
> usegeneric-host
> parentsnagios-satellit
>check_periodHOST_daily
> notification_periodHOST_daily
> }
> 
> define timeperiod{
> timeperiod_name HOST_daily
> alias   HOST_daily
> monday  00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
> tuesday 00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
> wednesday   00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
> thursday00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
> friday  00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
> saturday00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
> sunday  00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
> }
> 

The object definitions are correct.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications are sent, even if Notifications are diabled.

[Klaus Umbach]

2008/9/16 Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>
> On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:37 AM, Klaus Umbach wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have the following problem: The notifications for a host are
> > disabled, but I get the "host down" and th "host up" for the host...
> >
> > This does not seem to happen with all hosts...
>
> Without specific config snippets and assuming that they're really
> disabled, my only suggestion would be to verify that you don't have
> multiple nagios daemons running...


Here are the snipplets.
This HOST gets rebooted every night at 5am, and I get the notifications,
although the timeperiod is set.


define host {
host_nameHOST
aliaseasy-xbase
addressIP_ADDRESS
usegeneric-host
parentsnagios-satellit
   check_periodHOST_daily
notification_periodHOST_daily
}

define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name HOST_daily
alias   HOST_daily
monday  00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
tuesday 00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
wednesday   00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
thursday00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
friday  00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
saturday00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
sunday  00:00-04:30,05:30-24:00
}





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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications are sent, even if Notifications are diabled.

[Marc Powell]

On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:37 AM, Klaus Umbach wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem: The notifications for a host are  
> disabled, but I get the "host down" and th "host up" for the host...
>
> This does not seem to happen with all hosts...

Without specific config snippets and assuming that they're really  
disabled, my only suggestion would be to verify that you don't have  
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Re: [Nagios-users] NOTIFICATIONS - Question...

[Matthew Pounsett]

On 28-Aug-2008, at 10:36 , Marc Powell wrote:


A better solution might be to create a notification period that
excludes your maintenance windows so that the SE doesn't need to
manually disable notifications.


Alternatively, if your maintenance windows don't happen at predictable  
times (or don't run for a consistent length every time) the SE could  
use the "Schedule Downtime" command for affected devices, rather than  
manually disabling notifications.






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Re: [Nagios-users] NOTIFICATIONS - Question...

[Marc Powell]

On Aug 28, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Luis Fernando Lacayo wrote:

> Good Morning all,
>
> I have a question about notification setup.
>
> I have few devices that are defined with enable_notification set to  
> 0.  However,  we have a weekly maintenance period where the SE will  
> disable notifications by groups..   When they re-enable  
> notifications, it appears that even the ones that I have set to  
> disable notification send out notifications...
>
> Is this the way the software is designed to work? Am I doing  
> somethign wrong?  is there a way to keep these devices from sending  
> notifications?

Yes, that's by design. Changes made through the GUI/external commands  
intentionally override config file settings. There's no way to prevent  
that from happening that I am aware of short of disabling external  
commands entirely.

If you don't use state retention, specifically  
retain_nonstatus_information, then a reload/restart of nagios will  
reset all values to their config defaults. If you do  
retain_nonstatus_information then nagios will remember the new setting  
even across restarts.

A better solution might be to create a notification period that  
excludes your maintenance windows so that the SE doesn't need to  
manually disable notifications.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications sent in scheduled downtime

[Andy Shellam]

Forgot to mention this is Nagios 3.0.3 running on Debian 4.0.

Thanks,

Andy

Andy Shellam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 3 services - Director Scheduler Agent, Director Storage Agent, 
> and Director Client Agent.  I had to upgrade these 3 services, so I 
> scheduled fixed downtime for an hour on the scheduler agent, and fixed 
> downtime on the storage and client agent setting "triggered by" to the 
> downtime record of the scheduler.
>
> However, the storage and client agent still keep sending out 
> notifications even though they are in downtime.  Also, there is no 
> "downtime" (Zzzz) icon next to the storage and client agent in the 
> Services Overview.  In the service details, it shows the downtime record 
> as a comment, but says "in scheduled downtime" is NO:
>
> In Scheduled Downtime?  NO 
>
> This is my scheduled downtime grid for services:
>
> Sydney 
> 
>  
>   Director Storage Agent 
> 
>  
>   30-07-2008 21:09:55 sysadminDirector is being upgraded  
> 30-07-2008 
> 21:09:38  30-07-2008 22:09:38 Fixed   0d 1h 0m 0s 18  20  
> 
>  
>
> Sydney 
> 
>  
>   Director Client Agent 
> 
>  
>   30-07-2008 21:10:37 sysadminDirector is being upgraded  
> 30-07-2008 
> 21:10:30  30-07-2008 22:10:30 Fixed   0d 1h 0m 0s 19  20  
> 
>  
>
> Sydney 
> 
>  
>   Director Scheduler Agent 
> 
>  
>   30-07-2008 21:10:55 sysadminDirector is being upgraded  
> 30-07-2008 
> 21:10:47  30-07-2008 22:10:47 Fixed   0d 1h 0m 0s 20  N/A 
> 
>  
>
>
>
> The scheduler agent says "In Scheduled Downtime?  YES  " but the other 2 
> are not, even though the times are virtually the same.
>
> Is this a bug?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy Shellam
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications via CDMA

[Douglas K. Rand]

Thomas> Sure. If you can afford a second monitoring server in a
Thomas> different location that will do it though... I.e. monitoring
Thomas> your monitoring server.

This is a good idea anyway, and we have a Nagios install at our
colocation facility monitoring our main facility, and vice versa. It
makes good sense anyway. 

But I'm still using SMTP to an external service to send
notifications. It usually works fine, but not always. (We have a
service we sell sending text messages to several different providers
for several hundred users for events (unrelated to Nagios) and on the
order of 3-5 percent of these are bounced back from the SMTP service
of the provider. 

While our success rate for IXO/TAP delivery is in excess of 99.5%. 

Thomas> There's also many services that monitor your network from the
Thomas> outside world - they could be useful too.

Right, but I'd like to keep it in house. 


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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications via CDMA

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 15/05/08 12:27 AM, Douglas K. Rand wrote:
> Doug> I've been looking around for a way of delivering notifications
> Doug> directly via a wireless [CDMA] modem. If we had GSM service it
> Doug> seems that this is a very easy thing: get smstools3 and one of
> Doug> any of a number of GSM modems.
> 
> Thomas> Can't you just send an email to some "special" address of your
> Thomas> provider?
> 
> Thomas> Every phone I ever came across were able to receive SMS trough
> Thomas> email, both in US and Canada.
> 
> Well, that works great unless the notification I'm trying to send out
> is that my Internet service is down. Then I need an out of band means
> of sending the notification.

Sure. If you can afford a second monitoring server in a different
location that will do it though... I.e. monitoring your monitoring server.

There's also many services that monitor your network from the outside
world - they could be useful too.


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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications via CDMA

[Douglas K. Rand]

Doug> I've been looking around for a way of delivering notifications
Doug> directly via a wireless [CDMA] modem. If we had GSM service it
Doug> seems that this is a very easy thing: get smstools3 and one of
Doug> any of a number of GSM modems.

Thomas> Can't you just send an email to some "special" address of your
Thomas> provider?

Thomas> Every phone I ever came across were able to receive SMS trough
Thomas> email, both in US and Canada.

Well, that works great unless the notification I'm trying to send out
is that my Internet service is down. Then I need an out of band means
of sending the notification.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications via CDMA

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On 14/05/08 05:06 PM, Douglas K. Rand wrote:
> I'm a Verizon customer in North Dakota (United States) and the only
> cell network available to us is CDMA. (Just in the last 6 months did
> we get EVDO.)
> 
> Right now we use a modem and dial in to the IXO/TAP number for
> Verizon. This works, but I'm concerned about how long Verizon will
> maintain a IXO/TAP terminal. (And as a minor point, messages sent via
> the IXO/TAP terminal are counted as out of network messages by
> Verizon.) 
> 
> I've been looking around for a way of delivering notifications
> directly via a wireless modem. If we had GSM service it seems that
> this is a very easy thing: get smstools3 and one of any of a number of
> GSM modems.
> 
> I was wondering if anybody had suggestions for accomplishing this with
> Verizon and their CDMA network. I've found the MultiTech CDMA
> MultiModem (MTCBA-C-N3-NAM) but no software to drive it. (We run
> Nagios on FreeBSD.) And from what I can tell you can't send messages
> on a CDMA network anywhere as easily as you can with GSM.

Can't you just send an email to some "special" address of your provider?

Every phone I ever came across were able to receive SMS trough email,
both in US and Canada.

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications config help

[Marc Powell]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trey Bachner
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:05 PM
> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifications config help
> 
> I have notifications setup and working for the most part.  I am now
> trying to address an issue with how the emails are structured.  When
> they are received they not only get sent to the correct address but
> also have a long list of root directories as recipients.  I am running
> Version 3.0rc2 on Ubuntu Server 7.10.
> 
> Here is a a list of the additional email addresses being included.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> I will admit that I am pretty new to using Ubuntu server and the
> configuration of it's mail services but I cannot find anywhere in the

It's not an Ubuntu thing. I'm going to guess that your service/host
notification command has a * or something similar at the end. Can you
post the relevant command definition?

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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[mark . potter]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/04/2008 04:21:46 
PM:

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> Hi,
> 
> I am unable to get nagios to send out notifications. I have postfix
> and mailx installed. I have checked all my settings and have been
> unable to get it to work. I check the mail log and it appears that the
> notification attempts have been made but I cannot receive the
> notifications.
> 
> Kevin


It truly is vague question day on the list. If the messages are making it 
to the maillog then it is most likely, in fact I am certain, not a Nagios 
issue. I suspect it is somewhere in your mailer configuration. Without 
more information there is precious little I can say. Check the Nagios logs 
to see if they are sent from Nagios, check the maillog to see what is 
happening there. If Nagios is sending them and they are making it to your 
mailer then Nagios is working and your mailer needs troubleshooting.

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications for downed services

[nagios]

Well, here's what I have in its entirety.

My services.cfg looks like this:

 Generic services template 
define service{
name generic-service;
active_checks_enabled 1;
obsess_over_service 1;
check_freshness 0;
notifications_enabled 1;
event_handler_enabled 1;
flap_detection_enabled 1;
retain_status_information 1;
retain_nonstatus_information 1;
register 0;
}
define service{
use generic-service
namebasic-service
is_volatile 0
check_period24x7
max_check_attempts  15
normal_check_interval   5
retry_check_interval1
notification_interval   20
notification_period 24x7
register0
}
define service{
use basic-service
name dns-service
check_command check_dns
max_check_attempts 10
check_period 24x7
notification_interval 20
notification_period 24x7
notification_options c,r
contact_groups localadmin
register 0
}
 HOST01 ##
define service{
use dns-service
host_name host01
servicegroups mygroup
service_description DNS
contact_groups localadmin
}

So, to me, that looks correct. Host01's service check should inherit 
everything through 'use dns-service' line.

checkcommands.cfg file for DNS:

# 'check_dns' command definition
define command{
command_namecheck_dns
command_line$USER1$/check_dns -H $HOSTADDRESS$
}

contactgroups.cfg:

define contactgroup{
contactgroup_name localadmin
alias Site Administrator
members nagios
}

contacts.cfg:

define contact{
contact_name nagios
alias admin
host_notification_period 24x7
service_notification_period 24x7
service_notification_options w,u,c,r,f
host_notification_options d,u,r,f
service_notification_commands notify-by-email
host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}

I believe the above should be correct since I have host and service to 
be notified by email. Obviously I'm overlooking something. Marc, if you 
meant something else by setting up the contact_group for services, 
please let me know.

Thanks
Marc Powell wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Artyom Khmelnitsky wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>
> Hello. Did you see that you sent this to the list 6 times so far?
>
>   
>> I have just configured some service checks for services such as  
>> http, smtp, etc.. The commands are defined in the commands.cfg file  
>> and then called in the services.cfg file. The following is an  
>> example of how a commands.cfg and services.cfg looks:
>> 
>
> 
>
>   
>> The contacts are setup correctly since our check_ping which is  
>> declared in the hosts.cfg file works perfectly fine and we do get  
>> the correct alerts
>> 
>
> ...for the host definitions.
>
>   
>> Could someone point me in the right direction of what I'm doing  
>> wrong here? I can't seem to get emails if a service is down. It's  
>> most likely in my syntax, but I'm not sure where since I get no  
>> errors when reloading Nagios.
>> 
>
>
> You don't have any contact_groups defined for the services that I can  
> see. no contacts == no notifications. With nagios-2, they're not  
> automagically inherited from the hosts. I expect that nagios is  
> complaining with warnings though in nagios.log or when using -v.
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#service
>
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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications for downed services

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Marc Powell wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Artyom Khmelnitsky wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>
> Hello. Did you see that you sent this to the list 6 times so far?
>
>   
>> I have just configured some service checks for services such as  
>> http, smtp, etc.. The commands are defined in the commands.cfg file  
>> and then called in the services.cfg file. The following is an  
>> example of how a commands.cfg and services.cfg looks:
>> 
>
> 
>
>   
>> The contacts are setup correctly since our check_ping which is  
>> declared in the hosts.cfg file works perfectly fine and we do get  
>> the correct alerts
>> 
>
> ...for the host definitions.
>
>   
>> Could someone point me in the right direction of what I'm doing  
>> wrong here? I can't seem to get emails if a service is down. It's  
>> most likely in my syntax, but I'm not sure where since I get no  
>> errors when reloading Nagios.
>> 
>
>
> You don't have any contact_groups defined for the services that I can  
> see. no contacts == no notifications. With nagios-2, they're not  
> automagically inherited from the hosts. I expect that nagios is  
> complaining with warnings though in nagios.log or when using -v.
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#service
>
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Marc,

Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense. I'll have to recheck that. 
Once again, apologies for the multiple submissions earlier.

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications for downed services

[Marc Powell]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Artyom Khmelnitsky wrote:

> Hello everyone,

Hello. Did you see that you sent this to the list 6 times so far?

> I have just configured some service checks for services such as  
> http, smtp, etc.. The commands are defined in the commands.cfg file  
> and then called in the services.cfg file. The following is an  
> example of how a commands.cfg and services.cfg looks:



> The contacts are setup correctly since our check_ping which is  
> declared in the hosts.cfg file works perfectly fine and we do get  
> the correct alerts

...for the host definitions.

> Could someone point me in the right direction of what I'm doing  
> wrong here? I can't seem to get emails if a service is down. It's  
> most likely in my syntax, but I'm not sure where since I get no  
> errors when reloading Nagios.


You don't have any contact_groups defined for the services that I can  
see. no contacts == no notifications. With nagios-2, they're not  
automagically inherited from the hosts. I expect that nagios is  
complaining with warnings though in nagios.log or when using -v.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#service

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

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Mike Welsh wrote:
| I have inherited the Nagios project at the company that I just started
| working for and have a few questions.

As a hint. Take the nagios manual and browse through it cover to cover.
Then you get a good feel for it and you an dig into the issues in the
manual first.

I sure there are subject in there that you may not understand even if
you read it a couple of times but in those cases you should be able to
be rather specific in your questions.

(I know I did not have that many questions with Nagios but the whole
concept of a CMS like WebGUI for example did not land at all with me
untill someone took me on a small tour sitting side by side.)

| Sometimes when one of the services goes down and notifications are sent
| out, we will receive them immediately via email but the phone/pager
| alerts are sometimes taking up to 72 hours to arrive.  Is this a result
| of the Nagios setup or of the cell phone companies text messaging
| service?  If it is our Nagios setup, what can be done to speed this
| process?  If it is the cell phone companies text messaging service, is
| there anything that can be done?

Check the logs and you will know if the notification was send in time.
If it ain't a nagios issue then I am afraid you should considere
switching (phone) services.

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

[Scott Sanders]

In the last couple of months emails to our [EMAIL PROTECTED] accounts
have started taking up to 72 hours as well. This seems to be a problem with
the cell phone company and not nagios, as switching to
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Hope this helps,

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On 1/28/08, Mike Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  I have inherited the Nagios project at the company that I just started
> working for and have a few questions.
>
>
>
> Sometimes when one of the services goes down and notifications are sent
> out, we will receive them immediately via email but the phone/pager alerts
> are sometimes taking up to 72 hours to arrive.  Is this a result of the
> Nagios setup or of the cell phone companies text messaging service?  If it
> is our Nagios setup, what can be done to speed this process?  If it is the
> cell phone companies text messaging service, is there anything that can be
> done?
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>
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Jerad Riggin]

I found out via nagios.  It said the duration was 6 hours for the
outage, and I couldn't match it up with any alerts that were sent to
my mailbox.

Thanks for the tips

On Nov 19, 2007 3:48 PM, Aaron Devey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't see any obvious problems with your service definitions.  Did you
> find out TrendMicro was down for 6 hours by reviewing the nagios logs?
> If so, that means nagios at least saw the service had a problem.  If you
> found out it was down by some other means, perhaps you can check the
> nagios logs to make sure nagios saw a "critical" or "warning" problem
> with the service.
>
> Also, If you have log_notifications turned on, try examining the logs of
> the timeperiod it was down.  If you don't see any attempts to send a
> notification for TrendMicro on lg03, then it's likely a configuration
> problem somewhere.
>
> Finding it is the hard part. :)  The first places I would check are the
> service_notification_period, service_notification_options, and
> service_notification_commands for the contacts in the 'mis' group.
> Follow the service_notification_commands to make sure the command it
> points to is set up correctly as well.  If there are no problems there,
> I'd make sure there are no service escalations for that service.
>
> If that doesn't help, I have no idea what the problem could be. :)
>
> Good luck,
>
> -Aaron
>
>
>
> Jerad Riggin wrote:
> >
> > define service{
> > namegeneric-service ; Generic
> > service name
> > active_checks_enabled   1   ; Active
> > service checks are enabled
> > passive_checks_enabled  1   ; Passive
> > service checks are enabled/accepted
> > parallelize_check   1   ; Active
> > service checks should be parallelized (Don't disable)
> > obsess_over_service 1   ; We should
> > obsess over this service (if necessary)
> > check_freshness 0   ; Default is
> > to NOT check service 'freshness'
> > notifications_enabled   1   ; Service
> > notifications are enabled
> > event_handler_enabled   1   ; Service
> > event handler is enabled
> > flap_detection_enabled  1   ; Flap
> > detection is enabled
> > process_perf_data   1   ; Process
> > performance data
> > retain_status_information   1   ; Retain
> > status information across program restarts
> > retain_nonstatus_information1   ; Retain
> > non-status information across program restarts
> > register0   ; DONT
> > REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
> > }
> >
> >
> > define service{
> > use generic-service
> > namewindows-service
> > is_volatile 0
> > check_period24x7
> > max_check_attempts  5
> > normal_check_interval   3
> > retry_check_interval1
> > notification_interval   15
> > notification_period 24x7
> > register0
> > }
> >
> > define service{
> > use windows-service
> > namecheck-trend
> > notification_optionsw,u,c,r
> > check_command   check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d
> > SHOWALL -l ofcservice
> > register0
> > }
> >
> > define service{
> > use check-trend
> > service_description TrendMicro
> > contact_groups  mis
> > # hostgroup_namewindows-clients
> > host_name   lg03
> > }
> >
> >
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Aaron Devey]

Forgot to include the list in the CC.

Aaron Devey wrote:
> I don't see any obvious problems with your service definitions.  Did you
> find out TrendMicro was down for 6 hours by reviewing the nagios logs? 
> If so, that means nagios at least saw the service had a problem.  If you
> found out it was down by some other means, perhaps you can check the
> nagios logs to make sure nagios saw a "critical" or "warning" problem
> with the service.
>
> Also, If you have log_notifications turned on, try examining the logs of
> the timeperiod it was down.  If you don't see any attempts to send a
> notification for TrendMicro on lg03, then it's likely a configuration
> problem somewhere. 
>
> Finding it is the hard part. :)  The first places I would check are the
> service_notification_period, service_notification_options, and
> service_notification_commands for the contacts in the 'mis' group. 
> Follow the service_notification_commands to make sure the command it
> points to is set up correctly as well.  If there are no problems there,
> I'd make sure there are no service escalations for that service.
>
> If that doesn't help, I have no idea what the problem could be. :)
>
> Good luck,
>
> -Aaron
>
>
> Jerad Riggin wrote:
>   
>> define service{
>> namegeneric-service ; Generic
>> service name
>> active_checks_enabled   1   ; Active
>> service checks are enabled
>> passive_checks_enabled  1   ; Passive
>> service checks are enabled/accepted
>> parallelize_check   1   ; Active
>> service checks should be parallelized (Don't disable)
>> obsess_over_service 1   ; We should
>> obsess over this service (if necessary)
>> check_freshness 0   ; Default is
>> to NOT check service 'freshness'
>> notifications_enabled   1   ; Service
>> notifications are enabled
>> event_handler_enabled   1   ; Service
>> event handler is enabled
>> flap_detection_enabled  1   ; Flap
>> detection is enabled
>> process_perf_data   1   ; Process
>> performance data
>> retain_status_information   1   ; Retain
>> status information across program restarts
>> retain_nonstatus_information1   ; Retain
>> non-status information across program restarts
>> register0   ; DONT
>> REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
>> }
>>
>>
>> define service{
>> use generic-service
>> namewindows-service
>> is_volatile 0
>> check_period24x7
>> max_check_attempts  5
>> normal_check_interval   3
>> retry_check_interval1
>> notification_interval   15
>> notification_period 24x7
>> register0
>> }
>>
>> define service{
>> use windows-service
>> namecheck-trend
>> notification_optionsw,u,c,r
>> check_command   check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d
>> SHOWALL -l ofcservice
>> register0
>> }
>>
>> define service{
>> use check-trend
>> service_description TrendMicro
>> contact_groups  mis
>> # hostgroup_namewindows-clients
>> host_name   lg03
>> }
>>
>>
>> 
>
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Jerad Riggin]

define service{
namegeneric-service ; Generic service name
active_checks_enabled   1   ; Active
service checks are enabled
passive_checks_enabled  1   ; Passive
service checks are enabled/accepted
parallelize_check   1   ; Active
service checks should be parallelized (Don't disable)
obsess_over_service 1   ; We should
obsess over this service (if necessary)
check_freshness 0   ; Default is
to NOT check service 'freshness'
notifications_enabled   1   ; Service
notifications are enabled
event_handler_enabled   1   ; Service
event handler is enabled
flap_detection_enabled  1   ; Flap
detection is enabled
process_perf_data   1   ; Process
performance data
retain_status_information   1   ; Retain
status information across program restarts
retain_nonstatus_information1   ; Retain
non-status information across program restarts
register0   ; DONT
REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
}


define service{
use generic-service
namewindows-service
is_volatile 0
check_period24x7
max_check_attempts  5
normal_check_interval   3
retry_check_interval1
notification_interval   15
notification_period 24x7
register0
}

define service{
use windows-service
namecheck-trend
notification_optionsw,u,c,r
check_command   check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d
SHOWALL -l ofcservice
register0
}

define service{
use check-trend
service_description TrendMicro
contact_groups  mis
# hostgroup_namewindows-clients
host_name   lg03
}



On Nov 19, 2007 3:11 PM, Aaron Devey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are your notification options set to?  In 2.9 the default is "none"
> so if you didn't specify them for that service, it won't alert.  If
> that's not the answer, perhaps you can paste your the definitions for
> your service, contact, and notification command?
>
> -Aaron
>
>
>
> Jerad Riggin wrote:
> >
> > I have a nagios 2.9 install.  I have one host with multiple services
> > being monitored.  On the 16th the host didn't respond to a ping (the
> > server rebooted), and recovered within 3 minutes.  I received an
> > e-mail for both the failure and recovery.  I am also monitoring some
> > windows services on the same box using NsClient++.  It shows on the
> > same day that after it recovered the TrendMicro virus process was down
> > for 6 hours.  I didn't receive an e-mail during this entire time.  It
> > is set at 5 max attempts, 3 normal check, and 1 retry with a
> > notification interval of 15 minutes.  It should have at least notified
> > once but it didn't.  Any ideas?
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Aaron Devey]

What are your notification options set to?  In 2.9 the default is "none"
so if you didn't specify them for that service, it won't alert.  If
that's not the answer, perhaps you can paste your the definitions for
your service, contact, and notification command?

-Aaron


Jerad Riggin wrote:
>
> I have a nagios 2.9 install.  I have one host with multiple services
> being monitored.  On the 16th the host didn't respond to a ping (the
> server rebooted), and recovered within 3 minutes.  I received an
> e-mail for both the failure and recovery.  I am also monitoring some
> windows services on the same box using NsClient++.  It shows on the
> same day that after it recovered the TrendMicro virus process was down
> for 6 hours.  I didn't receive an e-mail during this entire time.  It
> is set at 5 max attempts, 3 normal check, and 1 retry with a
> notification interval of 15 minutes.  It should have at least notified
> once but it didn't.  Any ideas?
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Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jerad Riggin wrote:
> I have a quick question.  I have a host template that disables
> notifications and I have about 53 hosts using it.  If the
> notifications are disabled, why then does it still require that I have
> values for notification_interval, _period, and _options?
> 

Because you can dynamically enable notifications by an external command.
That wouldn't be possible for hosts with none of those options.

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications 3.0b3 not working.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ken Lee wrote:
> This problem has been solved.
> 
> There was no issue at all with my config or setup. What I did was
> decided to move onto release 3.0b4 from 3. As soon as I started the
> service after the upgrade my service and host notifications came
> straight through.
> 
> On another note. I really do appreciate those of you who read my
> email and replied trying to assist. This is what mailing lists are
> about.
> 
> I do understand that a lot of the time you get people that do not do
> things themselves and expect all the answers for no work. I am not
> one of those people.
> 
> I appreciate the apology Andreas thank you
> 
> On the other hand, I am confused by Arno's reply. If you read my
> first and second and then third post you may have not rambled on in a
> totally unhelpful and I think embarrassing way.
> 

I believe he fell into the same trap I did, by only reading my reply
to you and the mail I replied to.

For future reference, replying to your own email to make sure issues
haven't just been overlooked would have made me see my error before
hitting that send-button the first time, which would have saved me
the embarrassment of assuming too much and you the annoyance of
getting an undeserved rude reply. Again, my apologies.


> On the first point. I was not bitter at not getting any replies, you
> get that in this situation. I was actually a little annoyed at a post
> that suggested that I stop wasting everyone's time if I was not
> prepared to try things. I ended up getting an apology for that which
> I was grateful.
> 
> I think that this will be my last post on this list, I have found
> that only two replies were in good faith, the remainder
> were.uncalled for.
> 
> I think we should think to ourselves, if we have nothing good to say,
> don't reply. On that note I will take my own advice and go off to
> enjoy my notifications working.
> 

Wise words. Check back in if you need a hand later :)

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications 3.0b3 not working.

[Ken Lee]

This problem has been solved. 

There was no issue at all with my config or setup. What I did was decided to 
move onto release 3.0b4 from 3. As soon as I started the service after the 
upgrade my service and host notifications came straight through.

On another note. I really do appreciate those of you who read my email and 
replied trying to assist. This is what mailing lists are about.

I do understand that a lot of the time you get people that do not do things 
themselves and expect all the answers for no work. I am not one of those 
people. 

I appreciate the apology Andreas thank you

On the other hand, I am confused by Arno's reply. If you read my first and 
second and then third post you may have not rambled on in a totally unhelpful 
and I think embarrassing way.

On the first point. I was not bitter at not getting any replies, you get that 
in this situation. I was actually a little annoyed at a post that suggested 
that I stop wasting everyone's time if I was not prepared to try things. I 
ended up getting an apology for that which I was grateful.

I think that this will be my last post on this list, I have found that only two 
replies were in good faith, the remainder were.uncalled for. 

I think we should think to ourselves, if we have nothing good to say, don't 
reply. On that note I will take my own advice and go off to enjoy my 
notifications working.

- Ken Lee (kenlee)

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications 3.0b3 not working.

[Richard Mohr]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 04:54 +0200, Ken Lee wrote:

>  Mate, there are no lines similar to this in the messages file, in fact
>  no mention of smtp at all in the latest one. I have also looked in the
>  mail log and the only nagios entries are the tests that I have done.

You said you didn't see any "SERVICE ALERT" lines in /var/log/messages,
but did you also check /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log?  From the
configs you posted, that should be where those types of messages go.

(You'll have to excuse me if you already checked that file.  I just
wasn't sure based on your response if you have looked there as well.)

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications 3.0b3 not working.

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Ken Lee wrote:
> thanks for your wisdom Andreas, perhaps I should purchase Op5 monitor? Not.
> 

Ach, soz. I wrote the first reply on a different computer and failed to see
that you actually had tried a few tricks on your own. My apologies.

Try this:
---%<---%<---%<--- notify-to-file.sh ---%<---%<---%<---
#!/bin/sh
outfile=/tmp/nagios-notify.log
echo "" >> $outfile
echo "$@" >> $outfile
echo "" >> $outfile
env >> $outfile
echo "" >> $outfile
---%<---%<---%<--- notify-to-file.sh ---%<---%<---%<---

define command{
command_name notify-to-file
command_line /path/to/notify-to-file.sh 
}

define contact{
contact_name always_notified
aliasladida
service_notification_timeperiod   24x7
service_notification_options  c,w,r,f
host_notification_options d,u,r
host_notification_timeperiod  24x7
contactgroups *
host_notification_commandsnotify-to-file
service_notification_commands notify-to-file
contact_email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}

and see what happens. You may have to fiddle with the contact object a bit. I
wrote it from memory, and it's still a bit early in the morning for me.

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications 3.0b3 not working.

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

02.10.2007 08:34,, Ken Lee wrote::
> thanks for your wisdom Andreas, perhaps I should purchase Op5 monitor? Not.

While I can (kind of) understand your bitterness about not getting any 
replies yet, I think Andreas has made a good point here... Nagios 3 
*IS* beta, and it is supposed to be used by people who will actively 
help getting it fixed.

If you need a stable Nagios, use the 2.something versions. While I 
know that it's usually a good thing to prepare migration to a new 
version as early as possible, a complete switch to beta software in a 
production environment is surely not what I recommend to my customers.

If you want reliable support, using Op5 would definitely be one of 
your options. I guess that you could agree on a contract where any 
sort of malfunctioning will make Op5 very busy fixing your issues...

Arno

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Re: [Nagios-users] notifications 3.0b3 not working.

[Ken Lee]

thanks for your wisdom Andreas, perhaps I should purchase Op5 monitor? Not.

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