Notification Bug?

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

As far as I can tell, Nagios is doing exactly what you've told it to do.  I wouldn't have expected anything different.

Forgive me for asking the obvious, but... why not just enable host notifications?

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jordan [mailto:jordan at advapro.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:23 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Notification Bug?
> 
> 
> I think I might have encountered a bug in the Nagios notification
> system. If this was intended, please slap me. =)
> 
> Using: Nagios-text 1.0-3 on Debian Linux 3.0 (Woody).
> 
> Here's my setup:
> 
> I only monitor hosts being pingable.  Therefore, I create a single
> service for each host I add named 'ping'.
> 
> I have *enabled* all service notifications for every host I monitor.
> 
> I have *disabled* all host notifications for every host I monitor.
> 
> So AFAIK, the process goes like this:
> 
> 1) Service goes down hard (ping in my case).
> 2) Nagios pings host to see if it's alive.
> 3) Nagios determines host is down, so it SILENCES all service
> notifications and sends out a host down notification.
> 4) Nagios realises all host notifications are disabled, so no
> notifications get sent out at all.
> 
> I was tearing my hair out on this for a couple hours as to 
> why I wasn't
> getting notified of anything being down.  I realise that this 
> *could* be
> considered a configuration error, but given that lots of 
> people probably
> have a simmilar setup as me (with pinging being the only service of a
> host), it would be nice if Nagios could send out a service alert if it
> sees it is a ping (same as host down), or possibly creating a
> 'serviceless host' option in which all it does is ping to see if it's
> alive.  Anyway, any input would be greately appriciated.
> 
> 
> 
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