Mysterious email notifications

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Oliver Marshall <Oliver.Marshall at g2support.com> wrote:
> I have setup email notifications with Nagios, and the alerts are working
> well. However, I am getting mysterious blank alerts coming through.
>
> [...]
> 
> I have checked the services.cfg file for any odd entries, but there's
> nothing strange there, nor in the hosts.cfg or hostgroups.cfg, and the
> misccommand.cfg has only my notification settings.
> 
> Any ideas as to why this is happening ?

Have you checked your nagios.log yet? As long as log_notifications is
set to 1 nagios will tell you why it set off a notification.

[1148672966] SERVICE NOTIFICATION: kayser;sato;POP3;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;Connection refused

Cheers

- Sebastian


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