alerting flakey

[Jim Avery]

On 07/03/07, Ezra Radoff <ezra at iskoot.com> wrote:
> No, but I'm thinking now that it's always sending warnings and never sending
> criticals.
>  It's not flapping. We had a server down for hours.
>  It wasn't sending the warnings because it only does it after four. I think
> that part has been consistant.
>  In the service def it looks like all four states are configured for sending
> alerts. I don't get it.

Whether a critical alert gets generated or not can depend on the
notification_options in the service definition, the host definition
and/or the contact definition.

Whether notifications are generated at all can depend on
notification_enabled in the host or service definition, on the
timeperiod in the contact definition, globally in the nagios
configuration and it can be dynamically enabled/disabled for hosts,
services and for nagios as a whole.

My guess is that it might be something quite simple in the
notification_options somewhere.  See
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/notifications.html

Another option worth trying is check_for_orphaned_services in your
main nagios.cfg file.  See:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/configmain.html#check_for_orphaned_services

Cheers,

Jim

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