Quirky issues - ditto (earn $100)

[dave at homer.cymry.org]

It's probably state retention. notifications_enabled uses the state retention file
rather than the services.cfg if you have state retention enabled. I'd disable it and
restart nagios. 

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#retain_state_information

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 08:13:05AM -0600, Ric Moseley wrote:
> I have this same issue with hosts and services that I have notifications
> turned on in the config files for the host/services but they show in the web
> interface that they are turned off.  They were once off but if you turn them
> on after the fact the only way to turn them back on is via the web
> interface.  I have 5000+ services (distributed system) and I can do it
> through the web (it takes too long)
> 
> I have $100 (payable via paypal) for anyone who can solve this problem for
> me.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Ric. 
> 
>  
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of TIM MOORE
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 7:45 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Quirky issues?
> 
>  
> 
> I have noticed a couple things about Nagios that don't seem to make sense.
> Perhaps I'm just missing something and someone could shed some light.
> 
> 
> When I look under 'Service Detail' I have many devices that have their
> service notifications disabled by default.  I have notifications_enabled set
> to 1 on all service definitions in the services.cfg file.  The only way I
> can get them turned on is if I drill down each one and click 'Enable
> notifications for this service'.  This will take forever as I have 1100
> devices in the database.  My settings for service notifications is
> [w,u,c,r].  Why is this?
> 
>  
> 
> Also, I had a device go down last night and no notification was sent.
> Nagios says it was down for over 30 min, but nothing was sent.  I have
> service notification enabled for an oracle port but host notifications
> turned off.  Is it possible that if the host goes down and you have host
> notification turned off that it will take precedence over any service
> notifications and not send them?  That is the only thing I can figure.
> 
>  
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Tim Moore
> DNS/Linux/Cisco Admin
> ODJFS
> 


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