This probably really was a bug in nagios: http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=130
Thanks for the help! Kind regards Denis On 17.09.2013 17:17, Russell Van Tassell wrote: > If Nagios didn't also fire an event handler for EVERY status change, > their documentation seems to suggest it would be a bug... > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/eventhandlers.html > > -- > Russell M. Van Tassell > russ...@geekoncall.net <mailto:russ...@geekoncall.net> > > This message was sent from my wireless phone. > > On Sep 17, 2013 8:09 AM, "Denis Simonet" > <denis.simo...@adfinis-sygroup.ch > <mailto:denis.simo...@adfinis-sygroup.ch>> wrote: > > > an eventhandler behaves differently than the notification logic > does. so > > *if* you're comparing things, you should look for eventhandlers. > > > > and yet, i doubt the behaviour change unless proven with a working > > example from both core versions. > Well, it is possible that this changed with newer Nagios versions. It > seems to be worth a try to verify - I will send another eMail as soon as > I did so. > > > so your eventhandler wraps the notification logic into its very own > > algorithm and does the voodoo inside. i'd rather look for errors > in your > > script then, catching up with "host down, don't send service > notification". > I didn't check this in our logic up to now because when we used nagios, > nagios was doing it. Or at least I thought that it would do so. The > question should have been: Why does the event handler trigger for > services when their host is down? > > > > > that's a very common case that eventhandlers get called even if > the host > > is down... > > http://docs.icinga.org/latest/en/eventhandlers.html#execution > > > > and well - for the interested readers - why can't icinga handle the > > notification logic itsself, and why are you using a proprietary event > > handler wrapper for that? > We wrote a frontend application for Icinga (formerly Nagios) where we > can administer hosts and export configuration files for Icinga. In the > same applications teams can be configured on a daily basis. The alerting > itself is done in a round robin way and the alerts are all logged in our > application. Therefore it was the easiest solution to write an own > daemon application which does the alerting. > > > next time, please tell about that in the first place. makes error > lookup > > pretty hard if one thinks of notifications, but the user (you) is just > > using eventhandlers. totally different part of the story. > I accidentially messed up notification with event handler - I don't > think this is a crime :P > > Denis > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! > 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, > SharePoint > 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power > Pack includes > Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! > 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint > 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes > Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users > -- Adfinis SyGroup AG Denis Simonet, Software Engineer Keltenstrasse 98 | CH-3018 Bern Tel. +41 31 550 31 11 | Direkt +41 31 550 31 16
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