Notification problem

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Matt Hanley
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:24 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Notification problem
> 
> I'm having trouble diagnosing a problem with notifications.  I am
using
> Nagios v1.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 and it has been
> working great for the most part.  I noticed that at some point (don't
know
> when), Nagios stopped sending notifications for the PING service.  All
> other notifications appeared to be working great.  In an effort to
> troubleshoot the problem, I added a host named 'nebula' and brought
the
> interface down and back up.  No notification was sent for the host or
the
> service.
> 
> I've searched with Google, et al, but am at a loss, so any guidance
would
> be appreciated.  I've included everything I thought was relevant,
thanks!:
> 

[chop]

> Jan  4 14:30:32 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT:
nebula;DOWN;SOFT;1;/bin/ping -n
> -U -c 1 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:30:35 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT:
nebula;DOWN;SOFT;2;/bin/ping -n
> -U -c 1 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:30:38 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT:
nebula;DOWN;SOFT;3;/bin/ping -n
> -U -c 1 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:30:41 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT:
nebula;DOWN;SOFT;4;/bin/ping -n
> -U -c 1 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:30:44 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT:
nebula;DOWN;SOFT;5;/bin/ping -n
> -U -c 1 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:30:48 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT:
nebula;DOWN;SOFT;6;/bin/ping -n
> -U -c 1 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:30:51 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT:
nebula;DOWN;SOFT;7;/bin/ping -n
> -U -c 1 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:30:54 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT:
nebula;DOWN;SOFT;8;/bin/ping -n
> -U -c 1 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:30:57 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT:
nebula;DOWN;SOFT;9;/bin/ping -n
> -U -c 1 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:31:00 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT:
nebula;DOWN;HARD;10;/bin/ping -
> n -U -c 1 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:31:00 nagios nagios: SERVICE ALERT:
> nebula;PING;UNKNOWN;HARD;1;/bin/ping -n -U -c 5 172.22.3.156
> Jan  4 14:35:29 nagios nagios: HOST ALERT: nebula;UP;HARD;1;PING OK -
> Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.46 ms
> Jan  4 14:35:29 nagios nagios: SERVICE ALERT:
nebula;PING;OK;HARD;1;PING
> OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.48 ms

To start, it looks like /bin/ping wasn't executable by nagios before
14:35 and you corrected that, is that the case?

As far as the notifications, the one thing that seems a possibility to
me is that you have retention enabled, may have disabled notifications
at some point and now the notifications_enabled setting is now being
preferenced from the retention file over the config file. If that sounds
familiar, take a look at the Retention Notes at
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html.

--
Marc


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