<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6472.0"> <TITLE>Notification Question</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Hi, Early sunday morning a server crashed, the server was rebooted. Looking through the event logs nagios logged a HOST DOWN as expected. But no host down notification was sent out, notifications only started comming once the server was up and nrpe was not running. I expected to recieve HOST DOWN notifications, but none were recieved, Looking in nagios' Alert Notifications history, it clearly shows that host down notification were sent to all 10 of our admins. here is a snippet from my alert notification history. Hosts Service Tyoe Time contact Notification Command Information rtssip30 Check Disk / CRITICAL 08-10-2003 07:26:59 nlswe1 notify-by-email CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 30 seconds. kseu12 N/A HOST DOWN 08-10-2003 06:39:42 ksati1 host-notify-by-email CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds kseu12 N/A HOST DOWN 08-10-2003 06:39:42 ksjbo1 host-notify-by-email CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds kseu12 N/A HOST DOWN 08-10-2003 06:39:42 ksjkl1 host-notify-by-email CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds My question, are mail notifications written to the log, even before they pass through some notification filters. or from looking at the above log, should the admins have all recieved mails,, they continued to recieve mails all day complaining about nrpe not running. here is how the host is defined # 'kseu12' host definition define host{ use generic-host host_name kseu12 alias kseu12 address some ip check_command check-host-alive max_check_attempts 10 notification_interval 120 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,u,r } Any help appreciated, I really need to get host down mails. Thanks Stuart </BODY> </HTML>