at least it's not a question about notifications *not* being sent. what do you mean about nagios sending alerts very often? Isn't that why you setup it for? <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Rutul Patel <<a href="mailto:Rutul.Patel@nrsonline.com">Rutul.Patel@nrsonline.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, I need to configure nagios such a way that it sends alert when host is down and when host is up, Currently nagios is sending alert very often. Please advice, Thanks, Rutul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>