notifications_enabled 0

[Jim Mozley]

Ben Whaley wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I am having trouble with disabling notifications. I would not like to be
>notified when a host cannot be pinged, but I still want the check to happen.
>In my generic service template, I have "notifications_enabled 1". However,
>in the ping check service definition, I have:
>
>    defined service{
>        ; Generic template for all services
>        use                         common-to-all
>        name                        simple-ping-check
>        notifications_enabled       0
>        service description         Ping Check
>        check_command               check_ping
>        max_check_attempts          1
>        host_name                   *
>    }
>
>The notifications disabled icon (a speaker with a red X through it) apears
>on the Service Detail webpage next to the Ping Check service. However, I am
>still getting notified when hosts are unreachable.
>
>Should I remove the "notifications_enabled 1" from the generic template and
>specify notifications_enabled in each service definition? This would be
>unintuitive. Does anyone have other suggestions?
>
>  
>

Try the host definition rather than the service to avoid host 
unreachables (the ping is checking a "service" on that host).

Jim


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