Newbie problem: Notifications are not being sent out

Christopher McGee chris at xecu.net
Wed Nov 2 22:30:03 CET 2005


Problem solved.  I made a stupid configuration mistake and had the 
contacts setup to receive all types of notifications, including n, or 
none.  Therefore, no messages went out.  Found the problem quickly with 
DEBUG4 enabled.

Chris

Edward Ford wrote:

>Did you setup the SMTP within the FreeBSD?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher McGee [mailto:chris at xecu.net] 
>Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 1:08 PM
>To: Edward Ford
>Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] RE: Newbie problem: Notifications are not being
>sent out
>
>I appreciate the link.  I have nagios setup and have actually setup 1.x 
>before(a long time ago).  I have program wide notifications enabled.  I 
>have a single contact group and they are setup to receive notification 
>24x7, and all the notification types.   All of the hosts and services 
>are setup via templates.  They have notifications enabled in the master 
>templates.  In the web interface, everything says notifications are 
>enabled, however, when a host or service is down, the notifications 
>don't get sent.  On the interface for notifications, it says no 
>notifications have been recorded in the current log file.  As far as I 
>can tell it isn't even trying to send them for some reason.  In the 
>status page for a down service I see this:
>
>Last Service Notification:  N/A
>Current Notification Number:  0
>
>I hope someone has seen this.
>
>Chris
>
>Edward Ford wrote:
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>>See if this link helps you out. It is one that I have used in the past.
>>http://www.totkat.org/pages/nagios-conf.shtml
>>
>>Good Luck.
>>Eddie
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
>>[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Christopher
>>McGee
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:54 PM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] RE: Newbie problem: Notifications are not being
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>sent
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>>out
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>>I am also seeing the issue where no notifications are being sent out 
>>with the message "No notifications have been recorded in the current log 
>>file" when I check the notifications link in the web interface.  I am 
>>running Nagios 2.0b4 on FreeBSD 5.4.
>>
>>Chris
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