notifications_enabled

[Bill Gibbs]

Hi,
    I removed the references in the config files, restarted nagios and
verified they no longer showed up.  I then put back the config and restarted
nagios - and viola the looked correct.

    So it does appear to be a bug.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom DE BLENDE" <tdeblend at gcc.dhl.com>
To: "Bill Gibbs" <bgibbs at edurotech.com>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] notifications_enabled


> Dear Bill,
>
> Funny you should mention this. I have seen some weird stuff happening
> as well when I was porting our Netsaint installation to Nagios a few
> weeks ago. If I recall correctly, I had a passive service check
> defined as follows:
>
> <snip>
>         check_period                    24x7
>         check_command                   check_ping
> <snip>
>
> As you can see, this is wrong, as this service check should never be
> executed actively. So I changed the configuration of those services
> to:
>
> <snip>
>         check_period                    none
>         check_command                   check_ping
> <snip>
>
> I restarted the service, but the strange thing was that these changes
> did not take effect. The service was still checked with check_ping. I
> stopped the service, waited and started it again: same thing: the
> changes were not applied. After double checking everything, I had to
> cut this service from the services file, restart Nagios, verify that
> the service was gone, paste the exact same code in place again, and
> restart Nagios yet another time. This time the changes were applied.
>
> As I pasted the same configuration (cut and paste), I'm pretty
> confident that it is a bug. As I was quite busy at that time, I
> couldn't find the time to post it here, and I forgot. But now that you
> post this similar behavior, I think that this should get some more
> attention.
>
> Anyone else experienced similar oddities?
>
> Kind regards,
> Tom
>
>
> Bill Gibbs wrote:
> >
> > I have a hosts.cfg file copied from the sample config.
> >
> > notifications_enabled is set to 1.
> >
> > I have a few hosts, where Iset notifications_enabled to 0 - and when I
click
> > "host detail" I see a little icon of a bullhorn with an X over it.
> >
> > However, I want to reenable notifications for that host.  I removed that
> > line, restarted nagios (/etc/init.d/nagios restart) but the icon still
> > appears.  When I click the name of the host, it says "Host
notifications:
> > DISABLED".  I even tried to say notifications_enabled 1 specific in that
> > config block yet there is no change.
> >
> > Nagios version: 1.0 from 11/24/2002
> >
> > Template:
> >
> > define host{
> >     name                generic-host    ; The name of this host
template -
> > referenced in other host definitions, used for template r
> > ecursion/resolution
> >     notifications_enabled       1   ; Host notifications are enabled
> >     event_handler_enabled       1   ; Host 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_information    1   ; Retain non-status information
> > across program restarts
> >
> >     register            0   ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A
REAL
> > HOST, JUST A TEMPLATE!
> >     notification_interval   0 ; send only one notification
> >     notification_period 24x7 ; do it 24 hours a day 7 days a week
> >     notification_options    d,u,r ; send notification on down,
unreachable
> > and recovery
> >     check_command   check-host-alive
> >     max_check_attempts   10
> >     }
> >
> > Example host:
> >
> > define host{
> >     use    generic-host
> >     host_name   somehost
> >     alias   Some Alias
> >     address x.x.x.x
> >     parents someparent
> >     notifications_enabled   0
> >     }
> >
> > I remove notifications_enabled and there is no change in the GUI
output - it
> > still apparently thinks notifications are disabled.
> >
> > Bill "Elvis" Gibbs
> > Eduro Technologies, Inc.
> > main 240-529-2000 | fax 301-662-9552 | cell 301-748-5418
> >
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