service notifications not being sent

[nagios]

Pili,

Thanks for your response. Email is working correctly since the host 
notices are going out. I'm aware that the notifications won't go out if 
the server is down, but the server is up as we setup a dummy service. 
Hitting a brick wall here. :)

Pili Muñoz Gargallo wrote:
> I am not sure but i think i read notifications for services are not 
> sent is the host is down..
> anyway, your options are critical and recovery, (are you calling down 
> to critical state?)
> Are you sure you have your email server properly configured?
>
> hope this help you
>
>
> 2008/3/4, nagios <nagios at ayksolutions.com 
> <mailto:nagios at ayksolutions.com>>:
>
>     Hello everyone,
>
>     I have just configured some service checks for services such as
>     http, smtp, etc.. The commands are defined in the commands.cfg
>     file and then called in the services.cfg file. The following is an
>     example of how a commands.cfg and services.cfg looks:
>
>     # 'check_http' command definition
>     define command{
>             command_name    check_http
>             command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$
>             }
>
>     #### Generic services template ################
>     define service{
>     name generic-service;
>     active_checks_enabled 1;
>     obsess_over_service 1;
>     check_freshness 0;
>     notifications_enabled 1;
>     event_handler_enabled 1;
>     flap_detection_enabled 1;
>     retain_status_information 1;
>     retain_nonstatus_information 1;
>     register 0;
>     }
>     define service{
>     use generic-service
>     name                                    basic-service
>     is_volatile                             0
>     check_period                            24x7
>     max_check_attempts                      15
>     normal_check_interval                   5
>     retry_check_interval                    1
>     notification_interval                   240
>     notification_period                     24x7
>     register                                0
>     }
>     define service{
>     use basic-service
>     name smtp-service
>     check_command check_smtp
>     notification_options c,r
>     register 0
>     }
>
>     Example service called for a specific host (same services.cfg file
>     as where the above services are declared in the beginning)
>
>     define service{
>     use dns-service
>     host_name serv01
>     servicegroups mygroup
>     service_description DNS
>     contact_groups localadmin,supportpro
>     }
>
>     The contacts are setup correctly since our check_ping which is
>     declared in the hosts.cfg file works perfectly fine and we do get
>     the correct alerts.
>
>     Could someone point me in the right direction of what I'm doing
>     wrong here? I can't seem to get emails if a service is down. It's
>     most likely in my syntax, but I'm not sure where since I get no
>     errors when reloading Nagios.
>
>     Thanks for your help.
>
>
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