Event handler won't execute!(event_handler_enable no) when set to yes, still in effect?

[Arno Lehmann]

Hello,

jay alvarez wrote:

>  
>  Hi, 
>    I created some event handler script and restart
>  nagios again but the script won't work. The web gui
>  still says that the event handler for that
>  particular
>  service is disabled(marked red). How come? I made
>  sure

Most probably, you have retention set on.
Nagios stores the last state, and that is "event handler=off". So you 
need to turn event handlers on from the web interface to sync the 
internal state with the configuration setting.

>  it is enabled in nagios.cfg and also in services.cfg
>  for that particular service. Even if there's
>  something
>  wrong with my scripts, the web should have at least
> say that the event handler for that particular service
>  is
>  enabled. How come? Any idea?

It's in the manual...

Arno

>  Thanks.
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