[Nagios-users] notifications not being sent on host down/unreachable

2009-10-06 Thread Noel Platzke
I have a nagios setup consisting of 2 distributed servers and one master using nsca. I'm having an issue where notifications aren't being sent for hosts going down or becoming unreachable but I see them in that state in the GUI and the logs. If a service check fails the notification is sent fine

Re: [Nagios-users] notifications not being sent on host down/unreachable

2009-10-06 Thread Marc Powell
On Oct 6, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Noel Platzke wrote: My host, service and contacts are defined with the following templates: define host{ namestandard-host max_check_attempts 3 check_interval 15

Re: [Nagios-users] notifications not being sent on host down/unreachable

2009-10-06 Thread Noel Platzke
I included the template because the actual host definitions only include the server specific information. I'm not overriding anything. For example... define host{ use standard-host host_name server1 hostgroups +servers alias server1

Re: [Nagios-users] notifications not being sent on host down/unreachable

2009-10-06 Thread Noel Platzke
So this is working now but I'm not sure why. I deleted the objects.cache file and restarted and got a host down alert as soon as nagios came up. On a whim I deleted the cache file and restarted nagios and it sent out a host down alert. I didn't change anything else. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:22

Re: [Nagios-users] notifications not being sent on host down/unreachable

2009-10-06 Thread Marc Powell
On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Noel Platzke wrote: So this is working now but I'm not sure why. I deleted the objects.cache file and restarted and got a host down alert as soon as nagios came up. This tells me that nagios wasn't running with the configuration you thought it was (unless