Missing notifications?

[Mike Lindsey]

On 1/3/11 11:53 AM, James Moseley wrote:
>
>     I was directed in the irc forum to look at
>     http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/statetypes.html and I learned
>     that services or hosts need to have a hard state failure, in order for
>     notifications to go out. I've been trying to reboot my servers in
>     order
>     to get my notifications to go out. I'd like to check that I'll
>     actually
>     get notifications as soon as there is a problem, for example, a host
>     goes offline, I'd like to know after about 2 minutes if possible!
>
>
> Then just turn a server off and wait a bit...  ;-)  You could also 
> create a fake host, one with an unpingable IP address.
My favorite trick, that doesn't require adding fake config or rebooting 
a server, is updating /etc/hosts on the monitoring host to point a real 
host at a known bad ip address.  Requires root, and that you use dns for 
your hostaddress entries, however.

-- 
Mike Lindsey

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