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Thanks for the help guys, it's not perfect solution but it is doing the job

Just for my sake, what does this mean
command_line $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5

specifically the -w -c and -p

Just did a looked at the man page and found my answer on what that means.

I'll give it a try and see what happens. Apparently our old system used to alert with in a few seconds, but the generic host configs are the same. Just for my sake, what does this mean command_line $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5 specifically the -w -c and -p

okay that is making sense, thank you for taking time to explain it. is it worth while adding in the retry_interval = 1 to the generic-host template? Mine looks like this. define host{ name generic-host ; The name of this host template notifications_enabled 1 ; Host notifications are enabled event_ha...

Okay I added some extra DNS servers to my Nagios Server in the following locations /etc/networks/interfaces as it turns out that PERDC01 was the only DNS server configured for the Nagios server. This probably did not help. When I Shutdown the Server, after it had been down for 5 minutes I got the al...

I do have a ping_service.cfg file which is configured as follows. Would this cause and issues with the check-host-alive? # check that ping-only hosts are up define service { hostgroup_name * service_description PING check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60% use generic-service notification_interv...

is contact_groups still valid or has it been replaced? Okay I noticed that the check-host-alive uses the check_ping command. When I run the following manually I get a response root@PERNAGIOS01:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_ping -H 10.41.30.32 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5 PING OK - Packet l...

I will get my colleague who is an exchange guru to check for me if there is a delay on Exchange.

Silly questions how do I add a contact group to a host?
And how could I add the remainder DNS servers in?

Thanks for the help

I am not exactly sure how to do this? is it still cat/etc/resolv.conf If it is I get the following # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN nameserver 10.41.30.31 search corporate.example.com.au...

I get the following root@PERNAGIOS01:~# cat /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache | sed -rn "/define host \{/{:a;N;/}/{/.host_name.PERDC01/p;d};ba}" define host { host_name PERDC01 alias Perth Domain Controller 1 address 10.1.1.5 check_command check-host-alive contact_groups admins notificat...