inundated with "host UP alert"s

[Sean Schertell]

Hello Nagiosers,

I'm new to the list and new to Nagios. If anyone can help me with  
this, I'll be very grateful.

It seems that whenever a service fails, the host gets checked to see  
if it's alive (I realize this is normal behavior). But then when  
Nagios realizes that the host is alive, it generates a "host UP  
alert" notification as though it has recovered even though I'm pretty  
sure the host itself never went into a down state. Since I'm still  
configuring and haven't got all the services working yet, I'm getting  
a ton of these host UP alerts -- yet I'm getting none of the service  
critical alerts.

I can't figure out what's wrong with my configs. I'm running ver. 2.9  
on Fedora. Here's some selections from my configs in case it helps:


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# Standard Service Template

define service{
   name                    standard-service
   hostgroup_name          df-servers
   normal_check_interval   1
   retry_check_interval    1
   max_check_attempts      3
   check_period            24x7
   contact_groups          admins
   notification_interval   20
   notification_period     24x7
   notification_options    w,u,c
   register                0
   }




#-----------------------------------------------------------------#



define service{
   service_description     check_http
   check_command           check_http
   use                     standard-service
   }

define service{
   service_description     check_smtp
   check_command           check_smtp
   use                     standard-service
   }





# DataFly Contact Group

define contactgroup{
   contactgroup_name                 admins
   alias                             DataFly Admins
   members                           sean
   }




#-----------------------------------------------------------------#



# Standard Contact Template

define contact{
   name                              standard-contact
   host_notification_period          24x7
   service_notification_period       24x7
   host_notification_commands        host-notify-by-email
   service_notification_commands     host-notify-by-email
   register                          0
   }




#-----------------------------------------------------------------#



define contact{
   contact_name                     sean
   alias                            Sean (email)
   email                            sean at datafly.net
   host_notification_options        d,u
   service_notification_options     c,w,f
   use                              standard-contact
   }




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