notifications_enabled

[Tom DE BLENDE]

Dear Bill,

Funny you should mention this. I have seen some weird stuff happening
as well when I was porting our Netsaint installation to Nagios a few
weeks ago. If I recall correctly, I had a passive service check
defined as follows:

<snip>
        check_period                    24x7
        check_command                   check_ping
<snip>

As you can see, this is wrong, as this service check should never be
executed actively. So I changed the configuration of those services
to:

<snip>
        check_period                    none
        check_command                   check_ping
<snip>

I restarted the service, but the strange thing was that these changes
did not take effect. The service was still checked with check_ping. I
stopped the service, waited and started it again: same thing: the
changes were not applied. After double checking everything, I had to
cut this service from the services file, restart Nagios, verify that
the service was gone, paste the exact same code in place again, and
restart Nagios yet another time. This time the changes were applied. 

As I pasted the same configuration (cut and paste), I'm pretty
confident that it is a bug. As I was quite busy at that time, I
couldn't find the time to post it here, and I forgot. But now that you
post this similar behavior, I think that this should get some more
attention. 

Anyone else experienced similar oddities?

Kind regards,
Tom


Bill Gibbs wrote:
> 
> I have a hosts.cfg file copied from the sample config.
> 
> notifications_enabled is set to 1.
> 
> I have a few hosts, where Iset notifications_enabled to 0 - and when I click
> "host detail" I see a little icon of a bullhorn with an X over it.
> 
> However, I want to reenable notifications for that host.  I removed that
> line, restarted nagios (/etc/init.d/nagios restart) but the icon still
> appears.  When I click the name of the host, it says "Host notifications:
> DISABLED".  I even tried to say notifications_enabled 1 specific in that
> config block yet there is no change.
> 
> Nagios version: 1.0 from 11/24/2002
> 
> Template:
> 
> define host{
>     name                generic-host    ; The name of this host template -
> referenced in other host definitions, used for template r
> ecursion/resolution
>     notifications_enabled       1   ; Host notifications are enabled
>     event_handler_enabled       1   ; Host event handler is enabled
>     flap_detection_enabled      1   ; Flap detection 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
> 
>     register            0   ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL
> HOST, JUST A TEMPLATE!
>     notification_interval   0 ; send only one notification
>     notification_period 24x7 ; do it 24 hours a day 7 days a week
>     notification_options    d,u,r ; send notification on down, unreachable
> and recovery
>     check_command   check-host-alive
>     max_check_attempts   10
>     }
> 
> Example host:
> 
> define host{
>     use    generic-host
>     host_name   somehost
>     alias   Some Alias
>     address x.x.x.x
>     parents someparent
>     notifications_enabled   0
>     }
> 
> I remove notifications_enabled and there is no change in the GUI output - it
> still apparently thinks notifications are disabled.
> 
> Bill "Elvis" Gibbs
> Eduro Technologies, Inc.
> main 240-529-2000 | fax 301-662-9552 | cell 301-748-5418
> 
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