<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7651.59"> <TITLE>RE: [Nagiosplug-help] Alerts flakey</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  They're not in the log. They're not running notifcations for critical events, just warnings. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Guyot-Sionnest [<A HREF="mailto:dermoth@aei.ca">mailto:dermoth@aei.ca</A>] Sent: Wed 3/7/2007 7:16 AM To: Ezra Radoff Cc: nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-help] Alerts flakey 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 </BODY> </HTML>