Service Notification Issues

[James Cammarata]

Hi all, I'm running nagios-1.1-3mdk (on Mandrake obviously) and I can't get service notifications to go out.  Host notifications are working fine.  We've been running nagios for over 2 years, and just recently decided to start working with some of the more advanced features.  We monitor about 30 servers and 24 or so routers currently.

Here are snips of the relevant configs:

nagios.cfg:

use_retained_program_state=0
enable_notifications=1
execute_service_checks=1
check_service_freshness=1
freshness_check_interval=60
enable_flap_detection=1
log_notifications=1

contacts.cfg

define contact{
        contact_name                    jamesc
        alias                           James Cammarata
        service_notification_period     24x7
        host_notification_period        24x7
        service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
        host_notification_options       d,r,u
        service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
        host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
        email                           james.cammarata at XXXXXXXXXXXX
        pager                           314XXXXXXX
        }

contactgroups.cfg

define contactgroup{
        contactgroup_name       Admins
        alias                   Network Administrators
        members                 jamesc
        }

hosts.cfg

define host {
        use                     server-template
        host_name               lnxbk
        alias                   Linux Backup Server
        address                 192.168.XX.XX
        notifications_enabled   1
}

hostgroups.cfg

define hostgroup {
  hostgroup_name        000_stl_servers
  alias                 St.Louis Servers
  contact_groups        Admins
  members               lnxbk
}


services.cfg

define service {
        name                            service-template
        active_checks_enabled           1
        passive_checks_enabled          1
        parallelize_check               1
        obsess_over_service             1
        check_freshness                 0
        notifications_enabled           0
        event_handler_enabled           0
        flap_detection_enabled          1
        process_perf_data               1
        retain_status_information       1
        retain_nonstatus_information    0
        register                        0
        is_volatile                     0
        check_period                    24x7
        max_check_attempts              3
        normal_check_interval           5
        retry_check_interval            1
        notification_interval           120
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_options            w,u,c,r
        contact_groups                  Admins
}

define service {
        use                             service-template
        host_name                       lnxbk
        service_description             Ping
        check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
        notifications_enabled           1
        notification_options            w,u,c,r
}

Here is what the web view shows for that service:

Current Status:   UNKNOWN     
Status Information: /bin/ping -n 192.168.10.88 -c 5 
Current Attempt: 1/3 
State Type: HARD 
Last Check Type: ACTIVE 
Last Check Time: 06-17-2005 09:09:10 
Status Data Age: 0d 0h 4m 18s 
Next Scheduled Active Check:   06-17-2005 09:14:10 
Latency: < 1 second 
Check Duration: 5 seconds 
Last State Change: 06-17-2005 08:39:17 
Current State Duration: 0d 0h 34m 11s 
Last Service Notification: N/A 
Current Notification Number: 0 
Is This Service Flapping?   NO   
Percent State Change: 5.46% 
In Scheduled Downtime?   NO   
Last Update: 06-17-2005 09:13:17 

Service Checks:   ENABLED   
Passive Checks:   ENABLED   
Service Notifications:   ENABLED   
Event Handler:   DISABLED   
Flap Detection:   ENABLED   
 
As you can see, the "Last Service Notification" field is "N/A", is that relevant?  Or does that just reflect the fact that there are no service notifications in the log file for this service?

I'm thinking about upgrading to 2.0, but I haven't found any official Mandrake RPM's for the newer nagios versions, which means a hand compile.  No big deal, but if I can avoid nuking our current setup I would prefer that. 

Have I missed something obvious?  Or is it a known bug with this older 1.1 version that was fixed, thus necessitating an upgrade?


James Cammarata
 
System Administrator/Developer
Alter Trading
Desk: (314) 872-2426
Cell: (314) 409-0583
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