HOST DOWN notification not getting resent

Joe Rhett jrhett at meer.net
Tue Aug 24 01:15:35 CEST 2004


Either your contact or an escalation is limiting the sending of more.
Read the documentation on alerts -- there is quite a lot of interactions
that could be preventing this.

... and read the log.
 
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Viraxay Chinyavong wrote:
> Can anybody help me with this? I've read about 20 threads on this and my
> config appears to be correct but it is still not sending more than one HOST
> DOWN notification?
> 
> thanks
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Viraxay
> Chinyavong
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 2:32 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] HOST DOWN notification not getting resent
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can somebody tell me why nagios is not resending notification of "HOST DOWN"
> after it sent the initial message? Below are my configs of the hosts.cfg and
> services.cfg, respectively.
> 
> # 'bogus-server-for-testing' host definition
> define host{
>         host_name                       Bogus
>         alias                           Bogus Node 
>         address                         30.10.10.1
>         check_command                   check-host-alive
>         max_check_attempts              5
>         notification_interval           10              
> 	  notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            d,u,r
>         notifications_enabled           1
> event_handler_enabled           1
> flap_detection_enabled          1       	
>         process_perf_data               1       
> 	  retain_status_information       1       		
>         retain_nonstatus_information    1       
>         }
> 
> # Generic service definition template
> define service{
>         name                            generic-service ; The 'name' of this
> service template, referenced in other service definitio
> ns
>         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 (disabling this can lead to major per
> formance problems)
>         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_information    1       ; Retain non-status
> information across program restarts
>         max_check_attempts              5       ; The number of times nagios
> will check a service before sending an alert. Setting t
> his to 1 will send an immediate notification the service is down without
> rechecking the service
>         normal_check_interval           5       ; Check the service every 5
> mins
>         retry_check_interval            1       ; Time to wait before
> scheduling a re-check of a service
>         notification_interval           5       ; This directive is used to
> define the number of "time units" to wait before re-noti
> fying a contact that this service is still in a non-OK state.Time units are
> minutes notification_period 24x7
>         notifications_enabled           1       ; Enable notifications
>         register                        0       ; DONT REGISTER THIS
> DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
>         }
> 
> ############################################################################
> ###################
> #
> #
> # PING TEST
> #
> #
> #
> ############################################################################
> ###################
> # Service definition for PING Tests
> define service{
>         use                             generic-service       
>         host_name                       Bogus
>         service_description             PING
>         is_volatile                     0
>         check_period                    24x7
>         max_check_attempts              5
>         normal_check_interval           5
>         retry_check_interval            1
>         contact_groups                  sysadmin
>         notification_interval           5
>         notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            w,u,c,r
>         check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
>         }
> 
> 
> Many Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Joe Rhett
Senior Geek
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