notifications for a passive Nagios check

[wadud.miah at stfc.ac.uk]

I've found the "fault". It was the max_check_attempts, which I should
have set to unity!

-----Original Message-----
From: wadud.miah at stfc.ac.uk [mailto:wadud.miah at stfc.ac.uk] 
Sent: 03 March 2010 10:44
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] notifications for a passive Nagios check

I have a Nagios passive check which doesn't send out any alerts when
it's in a critical status:

define service{
  name                                  hpcsg-service
  register                              0

  max_check_attempts                    3
  normal_check_interval                 30
  retry_check_interval                  1
  active_checks_enabled                 0
  passive_checks_enabled                1
  check_period                          24x7
  check_freshness                       0
  obsess_over_service                   0
  notification_interval                 0
  notification_period                   24x7
  notification_options                  w,u,c,r
  notifications_enabled                 1
  contact_groups                        hpcsg
}

define service{
  use                           		hpcsg-service

  name                          		r89-service
  register                      		0
  contact_groups                		r89

  check_freshness               		0
  active_checks_enabled         		0
  passive_checks_enabled        		1
  notifications_enabled         		1
}

define service{
  use                           		r89-service

  host_name                     		r89-trap.esc.rl.ac.uk
  service_description           		hpd-crac-07
  check_command                 		none
}

define command{
        command_name    none
        command_line    /bin/true
}

The GCI shows that the hpd-crac-07 check has notifications enabled, but
when I "view notifications for this service", it hasn't sent any. We
have similar checks in place that do send notifications, but the key
difference here is that the above check is a purely passive one, i.e. it
only receives check results. 

Thanks in advance.

------------
Wadud Miah
Scientific Computing Systems Support, eScience
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, STFC
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