Nagios 2.7/Solaris 10 - Excessive Host Notifications

[Martin de Koning]

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering if someone can help me, I'm getting bombarded with host UP
notifications and no warnings for down hosts or services.

In my inbox I'm getting a constant stream of these warnings:


Subject: Host UP alert for proddse!

***** Nagios  *****

Notification Type: PROBLEM
Host: proddse
State: UP
Address: 10.0.2.1
Info: PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.31 ms

Date/Time: Thu Feb 15 15:34:26 CST 2007


Subject: Host UP alert for stagingdse!

***** Nagios  *****

Notification Type: PROBLEM
Host: stagingdse
State: UP
Address: 127.0.0.1
Info: PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.08 ms

Date/Time: Thu Feb 15 15:36:41 CST 2007


Now you can see it reports it as a PROBLEM, yet the output from
check_ping is OK. It also states in the subject that the host is up.

What's going on?? If I look at the Notifications page in the Nagios
website interface, I see all my normal notifications for down services
etc. I just don't see them come into my Inbox and instead I get these
strange warnings.


Here is some important parts from my configuration:

####################################
# COMMANDS
####################################


define command{
         command_name    notify-by-email
         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState:
$HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $H
OSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" |
/usr/bin/mailx -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$
         }

define command{
         command_name    host-notify-by-email
         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState:
$HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $H
OSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" |
/usr/bin/mailx -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$
         }

define command{
         command_name    check-host-alive
         command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 99,99%
-c 100,100% -p 1
         }

define command{
         command_name    check_ping
         command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$
-c $ARG2$ -p 5
         }


####################################
# HOSTS
####################################

define host{
         use                     generic-host            ; Name of host
template to use
         host_name               stagingdse
         alias                   localhost - Staging Server
         address                 127.0.0.1
         check_command           check-host-alive
         max_check_attempts      10
         check_period            24x7
         notification_interval   30
         notification_period     24x7
         notification_options    d,r
         contact_groups          Ardec
         }

define host{
         use                     generic-host
         host_name               proddse
         alias                   proddse-mon - Production Server
         address                 10.0.2.1
         check_command           check-host-alive
         max_check_attempts      10
         check_period            24x7
         notification_interval   30
         notification_period     24x7
         notification_options    d,r
         contact_groups          Ardec
         }

####################################
# SERVICES
####################################

define service{
         use                             generic-service         ; Name
of service template to use
         host_name                       stagingdse
         service_description             PING
         is_volatile                     0
         check_period                    24x7
         max_check_attempts              4
         normal_check_interval           5
         retry_check_interval            1
         contact_groups                  Ardec
         notification_options            w,u,c,r
         notification_interval           960
         notification_period             24x7
         check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
         }

define service{
         use                             generic-service         ; Name
of service template to use
         host_name                       proddse
         service_description             PING
         is_volatile                     0
         check_period                    24x7
         max_check_attempts              4
         normal_check_interval           5
         retry_check_interval            1
         contact_groups                  Ardec
         notification_options            w,u,c,r
         notification_interval           960
         notification_period             24x7
         check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
         }


Everything is working perfectly (even graphing) except for
notifications, any help would be greatly apreciated.

Thanks
Martin


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