<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content=Word.Document name=ProgId> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1498" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Microsoft Word 9" name=Originator><LINK href="cid:filelist.xml@01C5822C.52D17DC0" rel=File-List> <STYLE>@font-face { font-family: Wingdings; } @page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin: .5in; mso-footer-margin: .5in; mso-paper-source: 0; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } P.MsoAutoSig { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoAutoSig { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoAutoSig { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } SPAN.EmailStyle15 { COLOR: black; mso-style-type: personal-compose; mso-ansi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } OL { MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in } UL { MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US style="tab-interval: .5in"> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Did you have trouble getting notifications set up properly at first? The only way I could see that happening is if you had Sendmail (or whatever MTA you're using on that server) misconfigured and all those alerts from all the time you were testing were queued up and didn't get sent until sendmail was fixed and restarted which caused the queued messages to be retried, this time successfully.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Andrew</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Edward Ford Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 1:12 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] email notification question </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=Section1> I finally have Nagios up and running pretty well at this point. I did get an interesting event happen that I would like to get some feedback on if possible.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>- <![endif]>All was working well notifications for critical and recovery went by email working fine<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>- <![endif]>As a last test I decided to reboot to make sure all still worked well.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>- <![endif]>I got over 5000 email notifications for critical and recovery ( I have about 40 servers with three things being checked each: cpu, disk and memory) three multiplied by 40 should have been at most 120 emails. I figured that nagios was rechecking everything.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>- <![endif]>I am not so sure why I got over 5000 email notifications (that is five thousand). Thank goodness that I am also one of the email admins so I was able to delete everything that went to my email address while the 5000 were coming in and did not blue screen the mail server.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> Any suggestions on how I could have gotten over 5000 because I rebooted the nagios server..<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> Thanks;<o:p></o:p> Eddie<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>