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Yes thanks, all looking good now!

Steve

Hi,

Have deleted that event handler entry and all now seems OK, I think that must have crept in when I was troubleshooting an initial problem with emails not being sent at all.

Thanks for your help.

Steve

Hi, Ah, is it becuase notify-host=by-email is defined in the config below? define service { #NAGIOSQL_CONFIG_NAME services host_name lots of hosts (deleted) service_description PING use standard-service check_command check_ping!200,10%!400,25% is_volatile 0 max_check_attempts 4 check_period 24x7 eve...

Hi,

Sorry, being a newbie can you tell me where I check and/or change that?

Steve

Hi,

No, is volatile was not specified so I added is_volatile 0 to the ping check command. No difference.

Steve

Hi, I have since found, by comparing the NAGIOS logs with the dead emails received, that the failing messages are being sent by SOFT errors, the HARD errors are woking fine. Any idea why NAGIOS would be sending alerts for SOFT events? [01-07-2013 15:35:20] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: Romsey_Switch_1;PING...

Hi, I'm a newbie to NAGIOS and have just sucessfully set-up a server, configured it and now added most of our hosts in. All is working fine except for a small problem with email notifictaion. Although it basically seems to be working our email administrator has complained that our email server is be...