[Nagiosplug-help] Alerts flakey

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

On 07/03/07 02:57 AM, Ezra Radoff wrote:
> 
> hello. I've been using nagios for a couple of months now pretty
> successfully, but I've noticed that the alerting function is a bit
> flakey. I've been over the configuration many times, but everything
> seems fine. The amount of alerting it does seems to change after I
> restart the service with /etc/init.d/nagios restart. It was sending
> warning and criticals. Then, after a restart, it wasn't sending service
> critical alerts. Then I restarted it again. It wasn't sending anything.
> Then I restarted it again, and it was sending warnings.
> 
> I'm using version 2.6 which I got from the CVS tree a couple of months ago.
> 
> Can anybody give me a little help on this one?

Check the Notification page on Nagios web interface. Every alert sent by
Nagios should have an entry there. If you see all expected entries there
then Nagios is sending alerts correctly (i.e. running the cotification
command) and the problem is likely on or after the notification command.

Thomas