Re: [Nagios-users] Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

2013-06-11 Thread C. Bensend
I can't seem to parse It doesn't make sense to get a recovery notification for something you never knew was a problem. Are you saying that since Nagios doesn't consider an unknown a problem, it won't send a recovery? Because it does... And in this case, I certainly want to know when a service

Re: [Nagios-users] Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

2013-06-11 Thread Justin T Pryzby
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:12:23AM -0500, C. Bensend wrote: I can't seem to parse It doesn't make sense to get a recovery notification for something you never knew was a problem. see the original language here: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/notifications.html Note: Notifications about

Re: [Nagios-users] Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

2013-06-11 Thread Sunil Sankar
There is workaround this is how I fixed in our environment use_large_installation_tweaks=1 in nagios.cfg see whether this helps this removes the warning for you Regards Sunil On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Justin T Pryzby just...@norchemlab.comwrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:12:23AM

Re: [Nagios-users] Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

2013-06-11 Thread C. Bensend
see the original language here: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/notifications.html Note: Notifications about host or service recoveries are only sent out if a notification was sent out for the original problem. It doesn't make sense to get a recovery notification for something you

Re: [Nagios-users] Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

2013-06-11 Thread C. Bensend
Yep, I've had that one enabled for quite some time. :) There is workaround this is how I fixed in our environment use_large_installation_tweaks=1 in nagios.cfg see whether this helps this removes the warning for you Regards Sunil On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Justin T Pryzby

Re: [Nagios-users] Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

2013-06-10 Thread Chris Beattie
On 6/7/2013 9:28 AM, C. Bensend wrote: Not real sure why Nagios doesn't think that's a valid config - I want a contact that will receive only UNKNOWN alerts for services. Have you tried giving that contact the extra options Nagios wants, and then defining a service escalation for that

Re: [Nagios-users] Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

2013-06-10 Thread Travis Runyard
This is by design, and it is only a warning message. The config is valid and should work as you intended. It doesn't make sense to get a recovery notification for something you never knew was a problem. Unknowns are not considered problems in Nagios logic. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Chris

Re: [Nagios-users] Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

2013-06-10 Thread C. Bensend
Have you tried giving that contact the extra options Nagios wants, and then defining a service escalation for that contact with the escalation_options directive set to u? No, I haven't. It *seems* to be working as I intend. My question is more as to why Nagios seems to think it's a bad

[Nagios-users] Misplaced advice in the Nagios preflight check?

2013-06-07 Thread C. Bensend
Hey folks, Still ironing out the wrinkles in my 3.5.0 distributed environment. Yesterday, I added a new contact, and on preflight check it seemed to think that what I did wasn't smart: Jun 6 15:11:02 hostname nagios: Warning: Service recovery notification option for contact