notifications_enabled

[Volker.Aust at premiere.de]

Bill,

IIRC your problem have to do with retention. You have enabled retention of
nonstatus information (eg. notification enabled, active checks enabled, ...)
in your template (retain_nonstatus_information 1). If you want that Nagios
is reading your config from the config file and not from the retention file,
set retain_nonstatus_information 0 in your service definition (only for this
service) or in your template (for all services that uses this template).

Tom: I don't know whether check_period is remebered in the retention file.

-vol

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Gibbs [mailto:bgibbs at edurotech.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:36 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] notifications_enabled
> 
> 
> Hi,
>     I removed the references in the config files, restarted nagios and
> verified they no longer showed up.  I then put back the 
> config and restarted
> nagios - and viola the looked correct.
> 
>     So it does appear to be a bug.
> 
> Bill
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom DE BLENDE" <tdeblend at gcc.dhl.com>
> To: "Bill Gibbs" <bgibbs at edurotech.com>
> Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] notifications_enabled
> 
> 
> > 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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