Notification and check-host-alive problem

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:31 AM -0700 Roy Kartadinata 
<drhonk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I just have nagios installed and configured, so far its been running
> pretty good. Several things that I notice kinda wierd:
>
> 1. When I turned off imap daemon on one of our server, nagios detected
> that imap is down but it also shows check-host-alive as failed with
> error, /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 x.x.x.x, so nagios now showing both host
> and imap service as down.
> 2. Instead of service notification, I only receive host notification.
> 3. I turned imap daemon back on, nagios shows that it is up and
> running .. but no recovery notification like it should and host
> remained showing as down.
>
> Does anyone ever have this problem ? I'm using nagios 1.2 with plugins
> 1.3.1

It sounds like your check-host-alive check isn't set up properly.  I 
suggest running it from the command line, and verifying that it works 
correctly.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
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