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by TNZroadkill
Thu May 09, 2013 4:19 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Cannot get initial_state to work for active checks
Replies: 2
Views: 1309

Re: Cannot get initial_state to work for active checks

OK, I have solved my own problem I think. Reading the fine print, nagios has soft and hard state types, and will not notify on state transitions in or out of a soft state. Initial_state sets a soft state, and I don't see any way to force initial_state to set a hard state. So no notifications result ...
by TNZroadkill
Wed May 08, 2013 9:19 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Cannot get initial_state to work for active checks
Replies: 2
Views: 1309

Cannot get initial_state to work for active checks

Hi, My eventual goal is to have an email sent out to all admins whenever nagios is restarted. Yes, they asked for this. There are some complicated ways of doing this with custom plugin scripts but I was looking for an easy way. I am using Nagios Core 3.2.1+squeeze1 on Debian 6.0. This is the debian-...