I forgot to mention, this is Nagios 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.0.4 Jeos edition. (Ran under vmware server, not that it should matter)
My nagios.cfg is still pretty stock. It still has the following lines it it, which are the files I've been editing. cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/templates.cfg In templates.cfg, I changed the windows-server host definition from Contact_groups admins To Contact_groups itdept And in contacts.cfg, I have contacts nagiosadmin and beau-cell. I also added this section: define contactgroup{ contactgroup_name itdept alias IT Department Email Only members beau-cell } Windows.cfg host definition define host{ use windows-server ; Inherit default values from a template host_name 1it4 ; The name we're giving to this host alias Beau's Computer ; A longer name associated with the host address X.X.X.140 ; IP address of the host #contact_groups itdept !!!tried with and without!!! } Also, is this the output you were looking for? Checking contacts... Checked 4 contacts. Checking contact groups... Checked 2 contact groups. Regarding ls output /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 10812 2008-04-28 17:18 templates.cfg All of my configs have the same perms and owners. Ps output: nagios 15559 1 0 10:40 ? 00:00:04 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay R. Ashworth Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:25 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Issue with Contacts and Notifications On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:26:03AM -0500, Marc Powell wrote: > It sure sounds like you're not editing what you think you're editing > (i.e. that template isn't used by nagios or the services you think > you're changing). Please provide specific details or we're just going to > be guessing randomly. > > Template definition > Service definition > Contactgroup definition > Contact definition > Nagios.cfg line where templates.cfg is included as a cfg_file. > 'pwd; ls -l templates.cfg' in the directory it lives in. > 'ps -efwww | grep nagios' output (or whatever ps variant your system > uses) Is there a verbose version of checkconfig that will tell you what Nagios *thinks you told it to do*? (IE: not just that it's happy with the config) Cheers, -- jra [ And, an aside, Marc: I want to apologize to you. You RTFMd someone pretty hard my first week here, and I was a bit snotty to you; clearly it wasn't justified. --j ] -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/j avaone _______________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ 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