Davide,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Make sure you read this very very well</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; "><a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/notifications.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/notifications.html</a></span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">It will answer all your questions. </span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">Also, you can't specify the number of times messages can be sent to you but you can specify the amount of time to run service and host checks. You can also specify the state a device is in before it can send notifications.</span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">Alex</span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"><br></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:52 AM, <<a href="mailto:D.Parise@iaea.org">D.Parise@iaea.org</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Other question: what if I have the ping and a passive check on the host ? The passive check will stay on longer.<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> Regards,<br> <br> Davide<br> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Alex Dehaini [mailto:<a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a>]<br> Sent: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 10:47<br> To: PARISE, Davide; <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a><br> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host and ping service notification<br> <br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">service checks are ran before host checks. So, ping service might be down but the host might still be up. It also depends on how many times you specify a service to be checked before it goes to critical state. Nagios will run all service checks before it runs host check.<br> <br> Alex<br> <br> <br> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:48 AM, <<a href="mailto:D.Parise@iaea.org">D.Parise@iaea.org</a>> wrote:<br> <br> <br> <br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">* PGP Bad Signature, Signed by an unverified key: 04/01/08 at 09:49:17<br> <br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">Dear All,<br> <br> I have configured my hosts with the check-host-alive with check_ipmc and all of them have also the ping service.<br> <br> Now I receive the notifications when the ping is down, but not the notifications for the host down, and I do not understand why. Often the ping do not go down for long, maybe it is not enought to put the host down. The second question is what's the real point to have the ping service configured on all the hosts if the host check is done via icmp.<br> <br> Thanks you for your answers and best regards,<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Davide Parise<br> <br> Safeguards Systems Analyst<br> <br> Division of Technical Support (SGTS)<br> <br> International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)<br> <br> Tel.: +43 1 2600 26496 (Office)<br> <br> Mobile: +43 69916526496<br> <br> Fax: +43 1 2600 29121 (21st Floor)<br> <br> E-mail: <a href="mailto:d.parise@iaea.org">d.parise@iaea.org</a><br> <br> <br> <br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">* PARISE, Davide <<a href="mailto:d.parise@iaea.org">d.parise@iaea.org</a>><br> * 0xFCF4C509 - Unverified(L)<br> <br> <br> </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">This email message is intended only for the use of the named recipient.<br> Information contained in this email message and its attachments may be privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. 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