Recently upgraded to 3.0 final & now services are not alerting when they are critical

[Eric Cables]

Doh, of course the simplest possible thing.  That did it.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Philipp Geschke <nagios at pgmail.net> wrote:

> Might be a quick shot without thinking too much, and I'm not an expert in
> how notification decisions are down by
> nagios (though, there are some docs out there ;-)), but I don't see a "c"
> in the services notification options.
>
> >         notification_options            w,u,r,f,s
>
> you should be able to get warning states.
>
> --Philipp
>
> Eric Cables schrieb:
> > I have been running 2.5 for quite some time now, and recently decided to
> > upgrade to 3.0 since it was out of the beta phase.
> >
> > Everything appears to be working fine from the interface level, but when
> > services are critical, alerts are not sent out.  When I drill down on
> the
> > service itself, and check for notifications, the "Last Notification"
> field
> > simply shows:
> >
> > Current Status:  CRITICAL   (for 2d 14h 4m 43s)
> > <<omitted>
> > Last Notification:N/A (notification 0)
> >
> > The "Notifications" option shows "ENABLED", and so I am a bit confused
> as to
> > why notifications have not been sent out.
> >
> > To clarify, host alerts are working just fine, via the
> check_host_command,
> > but no service alerts are working.  I would appreciate any suggestions.
> >
> > Below is an example of how a service is defined, including what I could
> > think of as relevant configuration:
> >
> > ---
> > define contact{
> >         name                            generic-contact
> >         service_notification_period     24x7
> >         host_notification_period        24x7
> >         service_notification_options    w,u,c,r,f,s
> >         host_notification_options       d,u,r,f,s
> >         service_notification_commands   notify-service-by-email
> >         host_notification_commands      notify-host-by-email
> >         register                        0
> >         }
> >
> > define contact{
> >         contact_name                    contactname
> >         use                             generic-contact
> >         contactgroups                   sgne
> >         email                           contactemail at mydomain.com
> >         }
> >
> > define contactgroup{
> >         contactgroup_name       sgne
> >         alias                   Network Engineering
> >         }
> >
> > define service{
> >         name                            generic-service
> >         notifications_enabled           1
> >         notification_interval           180
> >         notification_options            w,u,r,f,s
> >         check_freshness                 0
> >         event_handler_enabled           0
> >         obsess_over_service             0
> >         flap_detection_enabled          1
> >         failure_prediction_enabled      1
> >         process_perf_data               1
> >         retain_status_information       1
> >         retain_nonstatus_information    1
> >         is_volatile                     0
> >         active_checks_enabled           1
> >         passive_checks_enabled          0
> >         check_period                    24x7
> >         notification_period             24x7
> >         normal_check_interval           2
> >         max_check_attempts              3
> >         retry_check_interval            1
> >         register                        0
> >         }
> >
> > define service{
> >         name                            service-network
> >         use                             generic-service
> >         service_description             Generic Network Services
> >         contact_groups                  sgne
> >         register                        0
> >         }
> >
> > define hostgroup{
> >         hostgroup_name          sdhq-core
> >         alias                   SDHQ Core Devices
> >         }
> >
> > define host{
> >         use                     host-network
> >         hostgroups              sdhq-core
> >         host_name               device.name
> >         alias                    Core Switch
> >         address                 device.name.mydomain.com
> >         }
> >
> > define service{
> >         use                     service-network
> >         servicegroups           sdhq
> >         hostgroups              sdhq-general
> >         service_description     Environmental Checks
> >         check_command           check_snmp_environment!COMMSTRING!cisco
> >         }
> > ---
> >
> >
> >
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Eric Cables
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