inundated with "host UP alert"s

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 29/08/07 10:38 PM, Sean Schertell wrote:
> 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:

Your services use "host-notify-by-email" to send notifications. Since
the host stays up it obviously sends host up alerts! (see the
host-notify-by-email command definition to see what is the exact format).

You should normally use service-notify-by-email or
service-notify-by-epager commands for service notifications. You can of
course change the format of these command and/or create new ones adapted
to your requirements.

Thomas
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