Hi Linwood, if you have a ping-only host you don't have any services (of course only as long as you don't configure any other legacy/active checks) and because of this the PING service is displayed.
For CMK/SNMP hosts there are other services so no need for the PING service to appear ;-) Back to your notification problem... Configure the PING service to be excluded from notification and you end up with the same behaviour as with the other hosts. How do you configure your hosts (Nagios config files, CMK WATO, whatever)? Regards, Marcel 2014/1/15 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > This is probably going to be a silly question as my first to the list, so > apologies in advance if so… > > > > Caveat: I have no prior experience with Nagios (et al), only commercial > systems like What’s Up Gold. > > > > I got the latest (1.10) and have configured it on Ubuntu server 13.10, using > nagios as the core. It’s running, monitoring. I’ve scripted host discovery > with nmap and got it nicely discovering the lan, and inventorying services. > Am starting to experiment with varions options and configuration (e.g. a > distributed polling site soon and some wan tests). > > > > One really minor thing is bugging me, and I’ve wasted most of the day > looking for it. > > > > When I have a ping-only host that goes down, or comes back up, I get two > messages. For example just got both: > > > > PING RECOVERY, CRITICAL -> OK (RECOVERY), Service PING > > RECOVERY, DOWN->UP (RECOVERY, state > > > > OK, I get that the node has a state as well as the service, but this doesn’t > happen for SNMP polled devices nor for Check_MK agent devices. There I get > just the state RECOVERY. > > > > These hosts have tags “lan|prod|ping”, and I have not changed (at least > knowingly) any of the out of the box settings for the checks. > > > > Both messages are correct of course – it can’t ping, and it is down. But it > seems like, consistent with SNMP/Check_MK agent devices, it should only send > the state message. Is that correct? > > > > But I can’t find any description (I haven’t gone as far as browsing the code > – yet) of how it determines states relative to these tests and knows not to > continue to check services if the object state is down. I suspect I’m also > going to have a problem with the first non-pingable devices that I can poll > for SNMP (etc) as well? Not sure, will cross that later. > > > > Thanks in advance for any pointers, > > > > Linwood > > > > PS. If it matters notifications are going out via email. > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > omd-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.mathias-kettner.de/mailman/listinfo/omd-users > _______________________________________________ omd-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mathias-kettner.de/mailman/listinfo/omd-users
