Notification and check-host-alive problem
Marc Powell
marc at ena.com
Wed Jul 7 21:27:20 CEST 2004
Roy Kartadinata <mailto:drhonk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just have nagios installed and configured, so far its been running
> pretty good. Several things that I notice kinda wierd:
>
> 1. When I turned off imap daemon on one of our server, nagios
> detected that imap is down but it also shows check-host-alive as
> failed with error, /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 x.x.x.x, so nagios now
> showing both host and imap service as down.
/bin/ping is most likely not exectutable by the nagios user. Make sure
that it's sticky (chmod 4755 /bin/ping) and owned by root.
> 2. Instead of service notification, I only receive host notification.
Correct behavior if nagios thinks the host is down.
> 3. I turned imap daemon back on, nagios shows that it is up and
> running .. but no recovery notification like it should and host
> remained showing as down.
Correct behavior if nagios thinks the host is down. See #1.
--
Marc
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