<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I’m sure others may have more information, but in order to create a notification you need to “create” a hard state change. Having said that, you would need to run some sort of check command that would check what you wanted, in your case it would be a number of named process. Mike -----Original Message----- From: nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Peter Lauda Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:23 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Force notification? <div> have read as much doc on notifications as I can find. Everything refers to the idea that Nagios will send notifications for hosts or service that experience a HARD state change. Well, Ok... but I want to monitor a service, say a process by name on an nrpe monitored server. If the number of that named process drops below X I want to get a notification. Is this possible or is there some way that I can force that situation to CREATE a HARD state change? I always see it in the logs as a SOFT change and of course, no notification. <div> </div> <div> Any advice very much welcome. </div> <div> </div> <div> --p </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>