I am having problems getting service outages to notify. Host notifications work fine. Below I have attached snippets of various configs. All of the configs are being read into nagios properly. Host notifcations are being sent properly... it's just service notications that are not working. I restart (not just reload) nagios after config changes. I am running Nagios 2.0b3 on FC3. -Dan Davis Relevant snippets on cfg files: nagios.cfg: log_notifications=1 enable_notifications=1 Other configs that are in files that are read into nagios: define contact{ contact_name nagios-admin alias Nagios Admin service_notification_period 24x7 host_notification_period 24x7 service_notification_options w,u,c,r host_notification_options d,r service_notification_commands notify-by-email host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email email <a href="mailto:validuser@fqdn.com">validuser@fqdn.com</a> ; the system has no problems seding to this email address... host notifications work fine... } define contactgroup{ contactgroup_name admins alias Nagios Administrators members nagios-admin } define service{ name generic-service ; The 'name' of this service template active_checks_enabled 1 ; Active service checks are enabled passive_checks_enabled 1 ; Passive service checks are enabled/accepted parallelize_check 1 ; Active service checks should be parallelized obsess_over_service 1 ; We should obsess over this service (if necessary) check_freshness 1 ; Default is to NOT check service 'freshness' freshness_threshold 300 ; 5 Minute threshold notifications_enabled 1 ; Service notifications are enabled event_handler_enabled 1 ; Service event handler is enabled flap_detection_enabled 1 ; Flap detection is enabled failure_prediction_enabled 1 ; Failure prediction is enabled process_perf_data 1 ; Process performance data retain_status_information 1 ; Retain status information across program restarts retain_nonstatus_information 1 ; Retain non-status information across program restarts normal_check_interval 1 ; retry_check_interval 1 ; max_check_attempts 2 ; check_period 24x7 ; is_volatile 0 ; contact_groups admins notification_interval 0 ; notification_period 24x7 ; register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE! } define service{ use generic-service ; Name of service template to use host_name nagioshost service_description Processes (httpd) check_command check_specific_procs!1!11!httpd } define timeperiod{ timeperiod_name 24x7 alias 24 Hours A Day, 7 Days A Week sunday 00:00-24:00 monday 00:00-24:00 tuesday 00:00-24:00 wednesday 00:00-24:00 thursday 00:00-24:00 friday 00:00-24:00 saturday 00:00-24:00 } define command{ command_name notify-by-email command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } # 'host-notify-by-email' command definition define command{ command_name host-notify-by-email command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /bin/mail -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$ }