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Hi Scott, I have actually managed to resolve this now! I redirected the nagios.cfg to look in another location, recreated the config's and the object.cache as a test and it began working. I've now moved everything back to default location as it still works so must have just been a bug or something p...

Yep host is up and all the other services being monitored such as disk space thresholds, applications running etc. all notify via email on warning/critical/recovery correctly, just the Windows services seem to not want to play ball!

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks,

LS

Sorry not sure why that one is listed as 240, both are listed as: service_notification_period 24x7 host_notification_period 24x7 In the actual template.cfg. I still don't get any notifications sent out though with or without the contacts specifically added to the service as you suggest (I've got one...

Hi Scott, Of course, please see below: define contact { contact_name nagiosadmin use generic-contact alias Nagios Admin email it.helpdesk@britsafe.org } define contactgroup { contactgroup_name admins alias Nagios Administrators members nagiosadmin } define contact { name generic-contact service_noti...

Hi Scott, I've replicated this behavior and the notifications still wont fire even after the services have been returned to an OK state and then downed again. I've been checking in the objects.cache as well just be be certain that the updates to the definitions are applying etc. but still no luck. A...

Hi Scott, Thank you for your reply. I have added the contact field into the service definition but it still doesn't seem to be firing notifications. Is there anything else I could be missing? I'm a bit confused as to how only SERVICESTATE check_nt commands seem to be the ones effected by this behavi...

Hi there, Firstly let me apologize if this is a simple mistake, I am brand new to using Linux/Nagios! So far I have everything configured and working in regards to monitoring Windows servers with the exception of notifications for SERVICESTATE alerts for things like W3SVC etc. The issue I am having ...