Problem: Server is UP??

[Mark Felder]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 06:27:04PM +1200, Steve Shipway wrote:
> > I really need some help with this guys. My setup was working for the
> > longest time and I can't think of any changes made to it that would
> > cause this behavior. I get random (and quite annoying!) Nagios alerts
> > that say "Problem: $SERVER is UP!" (with the actual host name) or
> > sometimes it just literally says "Problem: HOST is UP". Note, this
> > only happens during my off hours time. I've never seen this during the
> > day.
> 
> You have probably configured your contact details to send a RECOVERY alert for hosts when it is out of hours.  This means you will get a 'host is UP' alert when the host status changes to UP.  Your message format probably prepends the 'Problem: ' to it.
> 
> Admittedly your configuration doesn't look like this is there.  I suppose you should check the message header and make sure it really originated on your host, and check you don't have two versions of Nagios running (did you have and old or test instance set up that might be sending these emails?)
> 
> Steve


I can confirm 100% that there is no other Nagios instance running. I
also can't check the message header because it's using an email to SMS
gateway when I get these messages so I only don't have access to those
headers when it shows up on my phone.

Mark

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