nagios not notifying by email

[Dave Stern]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Mrutyunjaya Dash wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You can check you services.cfg file to verify you have notifications_options to w c u r. This might be one of the reason if you had copied services.cfg file from the sample config file.
>

services.cfg has notification options currently set to w,u,c. I added 
"recover".

One hint, on the webpage for a host availability, it says in the upper
left corner "Notifications are disabled"

This is in contrast to the fact that 
enable_notifications=1
is set in nagios.cfg
(and cgi.cfg says main_config_file=/some/path/nagios.cfg)

I just tried disabling all state_retention (was previously on) and bounced
nagios and finally got a message.   so perhaps state retention was set
incorrectly. What I'd like to do is have it retain state when I bounce
nagios st I don't get msgs about those I know are down on restart. Here's
what I have:

nagios.cfg:
log_initial_states=0
retain_state_information=0
state_retention_file=/usr/local/stow/nagios/var/status.sav
use_retained_program_state=0

host.cfg:
     retain_status_information       0
     retain_nonstatus_information    0

services.cfg:
      retain_status_information       0
      retain_nonstatus_information    0

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  David Stern                                    University of Maryland
            Institute for Advanced Computer Studies


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