Notification bombardment

[mark.potter at academy.com]

nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 10/24/2007 12:10:48 
PM:

> Hey list, 
> 
> I have an issue that just came up. Notifications are being sent
> CONSTANTLY. By this I mean, I have over 400 in my inbox from the past 15
> minutes of hosts that have gone done and recovered, gone down and
> recovered. 
> 
> The web interface through all of this has showed the hosts as up.
> however, when I go to shut off notifications until I can find the source
> of the problem, I get the wonderful "hey dork I can't read the
> nagios.cmd file. How about making sure it is actually running." error
> (In Lamens terms since I can't remember the exact text of the error.)
> 
> Now, being somewhat experienced with Nagios and from reading thousands
> of posts that I get from the list over the months, I checked to see if
> nagios truly was running. 
> 
> Low and behold it was, like 4 times. Interesting, as this morning
> everything was peachy. So I killed off the stray processes, and brought
> everything back up and did a 
> 
> ps -ef | grep nagios and as expected everything was fine and dandy 
again. 
> 
> Unfortunately the problem still exists. Right now I have the nagios box
> turned completely off, cause I can't get the notifications to shutoff in
> it's current state of disarray. 
> 
> Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon (which I have a feeling is the culprit), Nagios
> 3.0b1 and 1.4.7 plugins. 
> 
> Sorry for the long, drawn out email...
> 
> Stephen Valdinger
> [attachment "svalding.vcf" deleted by Mark Potter/IS/Academy] 
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I seem to remember there being notification issues in some of the 3.0bX 
versions. If this is for production it is recommended that you use the 2.X 
version (currently 2.10). The cmd file not found coult be a permissions 
issue. But as far as 3.0bX goes I wouldn't use it in production 
environment and for testing I would use the latest 3.0b5 and see if that 
changes any of the issues you might be having.
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