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hi, i have a question. by default, if a service i am monitoring is down, it sends out a alert. and then every few minute it sends out the alerts again as long as the service is still down. i want to change this behavier to the following instead: if a service is down, sends out a alert. but one alert...

can you give more detailed instruction step by step for doing that?

or is there just one file i can modify?

any idea yet?

tony z

ummm? my problem is still there! i am not getting SNMP trap alerts.

tony z

hi, i was able to look at the configure verification output and fix the error. and thanks for the clarification. no i just need to forward whatever alerts i am receiving on nagios to another SNMP manager. i followed exact instruction on "sending SNMP traps with nagios XI" find on your nagi...

ok ok thanks for no help at all... but i think i am on the right track now and almost there now and would just need a little bit help ;) it turned out not only i need to put the snmp manager host in the SNMP trap sender component setting, but i also need to enable SNMP trap monitoring for it to be m...

from tcpdump i see some snmptraps going out but to a totally different ip address 17:21:27.365601 IP nagiosxi.ohis.local.33988 > 192.168.5.4.snmptrap: V2Trap(201) system.sysUpTime.0=26002948 [|snmp] 17:21:27.866220 IP nagiosxi.ohis.local.54799 > 192.168.5.4.snmptrap: V2Trap(201) system.sysUpTime.0=2...

hi,

i am using your latest version of nagios xi on cento OS VM host build.

i downloaded snmp trap sender component and followed instruction to install and configure but no SNMP traps has ever been send out.

please advise.

thanks,
tony z

i am sorry i am a newbie and have so much questions. but how do i make it use the other mirror? this is what the install script says: #!/bin/sh componentdir=/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/snmptrapsender # Install required rpms echo "Installing required components..." yum inst...

ok i end up just doing the VMware install option instead of manual install. too much headaches and lock of documentation you know. anyway, now i run into new issue: i need to add snmptrapsender as component to my newly installed nagiosxi. but there is no instructions. i login in to the nagiosxi and ...