Hi James, Good news. I followed your advice and read some more about the definitions. But the thing that really helped was twofold: One was there was no reference to a global service template. The other thing was adding the contact for the service definition. There's a lot to this thing!
Many thanks for staying the course! ----- Original Message ---- From: "jmose...@corp.xanadoo.com" <jmose...@corp.xanadoo.com> To: Grant Lowe <gl...@sbcglobal.net> Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:21:03 AM Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Elevated alerts Grant, you've got me really confused now. For starters, I would strongly encourage you to go back and read the documentation on object defitions. It may be that by default notifications are enabled and that notification options are also set to something as default. With that said, since it appears the service definition below doesn't contain a reference to a global service template, I don't see where you have told the 'check remote zombie processes' service who to send alerts to. You either need a contacts or contacts_group argument to define who the service should send alerts to, something like: contacts glowe1 How are your other service definitions setup? If somehow email is working for the 'email' contact, but not for the 'paging' contact, then the contact macro you have set up as definied by the contact-by-pager definition is most likely the culprit. You're going to have to start with a known working contact macro and edit it until you get it working. Start by sending both critical and warning alerts to the working contact., then create new contacts with different alert options making sure you add those contacts to the contacts definition of the service definition. Lastly, have you verified your config? nagios -v /<path>/<to>/nagios.cfg This will tell you if your config is generally OK. James Moseley Grant Lowe <gl...@sbcglobal. net> To jmose...@corp.xanadoo.com 01/12/2009 10:55 cc AM nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject Re: [Nagios-users] Elevated alerts James, I thought I was trying to make this config as simple as possible. I'm only monitoring five UNIX boxes right now. Hopefully going to expand that soon with Nagios :-> The hosts I'm monitoring didn't have any notification options, but they do now. All six. This is what I have for the zombie processes: define service{ host_name blarney,frogmore,katz,dunvegan,redfort hostgroup_name solaris-servers service_description Check Remote Zombie Processes check_command check_nrpe!check_zombie_procs max_check_attempts 5 notification_interval 60 check_period 24x7 notification_options w,u,c,r,f,s } I don't have services disabled or enabled right now in any of the related service definitions (like the one above). Do I need to explicitly turn them on? I thought they were already on, considering I'm getting notifications already through email. Please advise. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null