<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <TITLE></TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>He just told you that hosts and services have _different_ settings. You included that in the quoted portion of your message just now. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Just because your getting service notifications does not mean you have host notifications setup.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Might I suggest you go through the configuration and set your host notification options to something similar to your services notification settings -- perhaps if one works, then the other will too. Once you get them working that way, then you can customize them to your needs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The instructions in <A href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html</A> and <A href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/notifications.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/notifications.html</A> as well as the example config files included in the nagios package provide just about everything you need to make this work.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004></SPAN><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I suggest you check the following: </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>hosts.cfg -> notification_[interval|period|options] and notifications_enabled</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>misccommands.cfg -> an entry for host-notify-by-email [assuming you are using this file and already have an entry for notify-by-email]</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>contacts.cfg -> host_notification_[period|options|commands]</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Another suggestion - you can add a ping test to the services list for the host in question. Since your getting your services page, a failed ping test would tell you that a server is probably offline or experiencing other problems.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=609215821-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Sudheer Muddappa [mailto:sudheer@tgs-solutions.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 05, 2004 3:22 PM<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Cc:</B> Kemp, Darren; Marc Powell<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagios-users] Not getting email alerts<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Guys,<BR><BR>The catch is I receive emails on snmp traps and disk quota etc.....<BR><BR>But not on the host down or unreachable.<BR><BR>Please let me know If you need any config files to look at.<BR>I will send them.<BR><BR>THanks,<BR><BR>Kemp, Darren wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid330CE9F92C02064B86090D40B479712F339219@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Hosts and Services have separate notification settings. Make sure your host object is setup to notify. -dkk -----Original Message----- From: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</A> [<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net">mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</A>] On Behalf Of Marc Powell Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:27 PM To: Sudheer Muddappa; <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Not getting email alerts ----Original Message---- From: Sudheer Muddappa [<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="mailto:sudheer@tgs-solutions.com">mailto:sudheer@tgs-solutions.com</A>] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:35 PM To: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Not getting email alerts </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">As I mentioned before, I am receiving emails for other services, like disk checks cpu utilization etc. But host goes down , I dont get any emails at all. And the email id is fine. As everything is happening on the same server. </PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap=""> </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">pertinent to troubleshooting. Additionally, I suggested you look in your nagios.log to verify that nagios was sending out the alerts. What did you find? </PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap=""> ...? -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. 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