Contacts.cfg define contact{ contact_name mis alias mis host_notification_period 24x7 service_notification_period 24x7 host_notification_options d,r,u,f service_notification_options c,r,w,f host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email service_notification_commands notify-by-email email <a href="mailto:admin@domain.com">admin@domain.com</a> (edited) } Services.cfg # Generic service definition template define service{ name generic-service ; Generic service name active_checks_enabled 1 ; Active service checks are enabled passive_checks_enabled 1 ; Passive service checks are enabled/accepted parallelize_check 1 ; Active service checks should be parallelized (Don't disable) obsess_over_service 1 ; We should obsess over this service (if necessary) check_freshness 0 ; Default is to NOT check service 'freshness' notifications_enabled 1 ; Service notifications are enabled event_handler_enabled 1 ; Service event handler is enabled flap_detection_enabled 1 ; Flap detection is enabled process_perf_data 1 ; Process performance data retain_status_information 1 ; Retain status information across program restarts retain_nonstatus_information 1 ; Retain non-status information across program restarts register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE! } # Generic for all services define service{ use generic-service name basic-service is_volatile 0 check_period 24x7 max_check_attempts 5 normal_check_interval 5 retry_check_interval 1 notification_interval 5 notification_period 24x7 register 0 } define service{ use basic-service name ping-service notification_options n check_command check_ping!1000.0,20%!2000.0,60% register 0 } define service{ use basic-service name check-http notification_options n check_command check_http register 0 } define service{ use basic-service name check-site notification_options w,u,c,r check_command check_http!-H <a href="http://lagarde.lagardeinc.com"> lagarde.lagardeinc.com</a> -t 5 -s "LaGarde" register 0 } define service{ use basic-service name check-smtp notification_options w,u,c,r check_command check_smtp!-t 5 -e "<a href="http://mail.domain.com">mail.domain.com</a>" register 0 } define service{ use ping-service service_description PING contact_groups mishelpdesk hostgroup_name basic-clients # host_name one_client } define service{ use check-http service_description HTTP contact_groups mishelpdesk hostgroup_name basic-clients } define service{ use check-site service_description Site contact_groups mishelpdesk host_name lg02 } define service{ use check-smtp service_description SMTP contact_groups mishelpdesk host_name lg01 } <div>On 6/22/07, Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX) <<a href="mailto:svalding@doverchem.com">svalding@doverchem.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> Can you post your definition and your template that it uses? It may have something to do with your notification options. Check your mail log and nagios log to see if anything happened behind the scenes and post any funny or suspicious output. Thanks. <div> Stephen Valdinger MIS Helpdesk Coordinator Dover Chemical Corporation 3676 Davis Rd NW Dover, OH 44622 330-365-3622 <a href="mailto:stephen.valdinger@doverchem.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">stephen.valdinger@doverchem.com </a> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </div> From: Jerad Riggin [mailto:<a href="mailto:jriggin@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jriggin@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 10:56 AM To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifications </div> <div> Sorry if this question is confusing. </div> <div> </div> <div> I'm monitoring the HTTP service on a server. I have it set to notify on w,u,c,r in services.cfg. I turned of HTTP to trigger a warning state and I successfully received an e-mail. I turned HTTP back on and successfully received a recovery warning. I then triggered another warning and never received an e-mail and a notification wasn't listed in nagios' web interface. Any ideas? </div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div>