FW: I cant get notifications for service alerts

[Andrew Thompson]

So this morning I have added a check_ping command to the host and left the check_nt on the service.

Disabled host alerts and left service alerts activated for the disk check service group

Nailed a drive space and got my service alerts in both email and sms format.

Thanks for the explanation and pointing out to me where I was going wrong Patrick.


Kind Regards
Andrew

From: Andrew Thompson
Sent: 25 January 2012 21:32
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Fwd: I cant get notifications for service alerts


Hi Patrick,

so what check do I suggest I add in fir the host?

For example my servers cfg uses check-server-alive for the host and check_ping for the service.
But the hosts are ok in that scenario as I only want to know when the host is up or down, I don't want to know when the service is critical.

But in the disk space scenario I only want to know when the service us critical because the disk usage as hit the threshold, I don't need a host up our down check notification.

hope this makes sense?

Regards

Sent from My Samsung Galaxy



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Subject: I cant get notifications for service alerts
From: Andrew Thompson <andrew at fulgent.co.uk<mailto:andrew at fulgent.co.uk>>
To: "nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>" <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>>
CC:

Hi all,

I have just setup Nagios to monitor the diskspace on my servers.

Nagios works fine monitoring and reporting diskspace but I cant get the notifications to work properly.

I also ping all my servers and the PING checks I have send me host alerts to say UP or DOWN but I have disabled service alerts as I don't want them for the PING check.

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

Thankyou in advance

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