I cant get notifications for service alerts

[Morris, Patrick]

From: Andrew Thompson [mailto:andrew at fulgent.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:15 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] I cant get notifications for service alerts

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So I thought I would so the reverse and setup the disk check commands and
disable host alerts and just have service alerts for when said server goes
over the critical disk space limit I have sent.

Problem is no service alerts get sent out no matter how long the host is in
critical state!

If I enable host and service alerts for the disk check command I get host
alerts to say that the host is DOWN (which it isn't its CRITICAL)

My test disk_check config file is located at the below link, thought it be
best to provide the whole lot rather than snippets.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/895609/disk_space_test.cfg

Can anybody explain why I don't get any service alerts when the host goes
CRITICAL and how I can get them please without having host alerts enabled as
I don't want them for my disk check commands

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If a service check fails, your host check will be called.  That's how Nagios
knows if a check is failing because the service is broken, or if it's
because the host is not up.  Because you've specified the same check for
both, so both will always fail at the same time, Nagios is always going to
think the host is down.

Your host check should generally be a simple check they will tell you
whether a host is up or down. Setting things up the way you have will cause
the behavior you are seeing.

If you really don't want a host check, just use a dummy check that always
succeeds.
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