<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Thanks this worked, but now I have a new problem.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>After the checks came back up, all the host check notifications were disabled. Is there a way to globally enable all the notifications for the hosts? Or do I have do it one by one?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Payam<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </span></font></div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <b><span style='font-weight: bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>moshe <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">sharon</st1:place></st1:City><br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, April 20, 2007 3:07 PM<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Nagios Users Mailing List<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nagios-users] Resetting nagios checks</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'>Hello<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>usually its related to orphaned services. nagios 1.x and 2.x checks hosts in serial processing rather the parallel processing like in services</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>if you have multiple hosts down the whole schedule thing get messy.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>i can recommend 2 things:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>1) disable host checks and only rely on service checks.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>2) set <strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">retain_state_information</font></b></strong> to 0.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>when you restart nagios when retain_state_information is 0 it will flush the whole checks and restart from scratch.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'>hopefully those problems will go away on nagios 3.x with the new host checks mechanism<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'>Hope it Helped<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>-- <br> Moshe Sharon<br> <a href="http://www.centerity.com">http://www.centerity.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> </body> </html>