Notifications to unknown user for services with disabled notify

[Markus Schreier]

Hello Marc,
thanks for your reply. 
yes you are wright. My notify-commands are put in as event-handler for all hosts and all services. I will just remove the event_handler line. I also set event_handler_enabled to 0 and all should be fine.

Again, thank you

best regards,
Markus

I put in a host and a service definition, just to be complete:
define  host {
        host_name                       hostname.domain.de
        alias                           Serviceportal VIP
        address                         x.y.z
        parents                         kp-sp-proxy
        check_command                   check_http_proxy_ping
        max_check_attempts              3
        active_checks_enabled           1
        passive_checks_enabled          0
        check_period                    24x7
        obsess_over_host                1
        check_freshness                 1
        event_handler                   notify-host-by-email
        event_handler_enabled           1
        flap_detection_enabled          1
        failure_prediction_enabled      1
        process_perf_data               0
        retain_status_information       1
        retain_nonstatus_information    1
        contact_groups                  nagios-admins,ServiceCenter,ziv-admins
        notification_interval           60
        notification_period             arbeitszeitrufbereit
        notification_options            d,u,r,f
        notifications_enabled           1
        register                        1
        }

define  service {
        host_name                       hostname.domain.de
        service_description             Serviceportal Login VIP
        servicegroups                   webbased
        is_volatile                     0
        check_command                   check_serviceplattform!serviceplattform_eprtlogin.conf
        max_check_attempts              3
        normal_check_interval           5
        retry_check_interval            2
        active_checks_enabled           1
        passive_checks_enabled          0
        check_period                    24x7
        parallelize_check               1
        obsess_over_service             1
        check_freshness                 0
        event_handler                   notify-service-by-email
        event_handler_enabled           1
        flap_detection_enabled          1
        failure_prediction_enabled      1
        process_perf_data               1
        retain_status_information       1
        retain_nonstatus_information    1
        contact_groups                  nagios-admins,ServiceCenter,ziv-admins
        notification_interval           60
        notification_period             arbeitszeitrufbereit
        notification_options            w,u,c,r,f
        notifications_enabled           1
        register                        1
        }


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:21:28 -0600
> Von: Marc Powell <marc at ena.com>
> An: nagios-users Mailinglist <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Betreff: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications to unknown user for services with	disabled notify

> 
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 3:46 AM, Markus Schreier wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > i'm new to the list even though i'm not new to nagios. I've taken  
> > over an installation on an ubuntu -linux  and made local emails (to  
> > root or to nagios) being forwarded to some administration account.  
> > This made me realize some enormous email-traffic:
> 
> Hello and welcome. =)
> 
> >
> > My nagios-service sends notify-mails to the Mailadresse "$" on the  
> > local host.  This happens even for services with disabled  
> > notifications.
> > Host and service-notifications are affected.
> 
> 
> > Why are there notifications being send if disabled for this service?
> > Where does the mailadress $ come from?
> 
> A complete example host and service definition would be helpful. My  
> guess is that you have your notification commands specified as an  
> event_handler.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.user/58877
> 
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> Marc
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