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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">So this morning I have added a check_ping command to the host and left the check_nt on the service.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Disabled host alerts and left service alerts activated for the disk check service group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Nailed a drive space and got my service alerts in both email and sms format.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks for the explanation and pointing out to me where I was going wrong Patrick.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Andrew Thompson
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<b>Sent:</b> 25 January 2012 21:32<br>
<b>To:</b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: I cant get notifications for service alerts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hi Patrick, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">so what check do I suggest I add in fir the host?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For example my servers cfg uses check-server-alive for the host and check_ping for the service.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">But the hosts are ok in that scenario as I only want to know when the host is up or down, I don't want to know when the service is critical.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">But in the disk space scenario I only want to know when the service us critical because the disk usage as hit the threshold, I don't need a host up our down check notification.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">hope this makes sense?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sent from My Samsung Galaxy</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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Subject: I cant get notifications for service alerts <br>
From: Andrew Thompson <<a href="mailto:andrew@fulgent.co.uk">andrew@fulgent.co.uk</a>>
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To: "<a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have just setup Nagios to monitor the diskspace on my servers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nagios works fine monitoring and reporting diskspace but I cant get the notifications to work properly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I also ping all my servers and the PING checks I have send me host alerts to say UP or DOWN but I have disabled service alerts as I don’t want them for the PING check.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So I thought I would so the reverse and setup the disk check commands and disable host alerts and just have service alerts for when said server goes over the critical disk space limit I have sent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Problem is no service alerts get sent out no matter how long the host is in critical state!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If I enable host and service alerts for the disk check command I get host alerts to say that the host is DOWN (which it isn’t its CRITICAL)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My test disk_check config file is located at the below link, thought it be best to provide the whole lot rather than snippets.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/895609/disk_space_test.cfg">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/895609/disk_space_test.cfg</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can anybody explain why I don’t get any service alerts when the host goes CRITICAL and how I can get them please without having host alerts enabled as I don’t want them for my disk check commands<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thankyou in advance<o:p></o:p></p>
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