<div>I think I found one of the causes for the excessive notifacations - the notification_interval was set to 0. For almost all our services we have a high number (such as 1440), but this current value of zero must have made it's way into the code somehow. This is my current definition: </div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div> define service { use generic-service service_description Current load for virtual servers servicegroups performance hostgroups virtual-servers is_volatile 0 check_period 24x7 max_check_attempts 3 normal_check_interval 5 retry_check_interval 1 notification_interval 0 notification_period 24x7 check_command check_remote_load!/home/nagios/.ssh/id_rsa!nagios!13.0,8.0,3.0!15.0,10.0,5.0 } </div></blockquote> <div> </div> <div>Setting this attribute to a higher value should make me get a lot less notifications, but I will still get more or less duplicate notifications. Help on avoiding this will be appreciated.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regarding your specific questions: I think the service definition above answers most of them. We don't run multiple Nagios daemons on the same machine. I didn't find anything unusual in objects.cache. </div> <div>On 11/12/08, Marc Powell <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:marc@ena.com" target="_blank">marc@ena.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:43 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > The "is_volatile" options is actually already set to "0". :/ That's interesting. That's about the only option that would cause the behavior you are reporting that I can think of. Are you using event handlers for notifications? Is your notification_interval the same or similar to your normal_check_interval? Make sure that you don't have multiple nagios daemons running at the same time and that the service definition in objects.cache is as you expect it to be. The only case in which nagios cares about the _text_ of the plugin output is when state stalking is enabled. Even then, it only provides logging of that change, not a notification. There are only two conditions under which notifications will be sent out (<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/notifications.html)--" target="_blank">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/notifications.html)--</a> "When Do Notifications Occur? The decision to send out notifications is made in the service check and host check logic. Host and service notifications occur in the following instances... * When a hard state change occurs. More information on state types and hard state changes can be found here. * When a host or service remains in a hard non-OK state and the time specified by the <notification_interval> option in the host or service definition has passed since the last notification was sent out (for that specified host or service)." > I think it would be correct to sum up what I'm in need of like this: > Whenever there is a transition from one hard error state to another > hard error state, or when there has been a recovery from such an > error, I'd like a notification. Yup. Standard Operating Procedure for nagios. You have to do something unusual to not get this behavior. Perhaps you should post some config information from objects.cache for inspection. service definition, contact definition and notification command definition. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/" target="_blank">http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>