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Hi Guys / Gals I've been noticing some strange behavior and a lot of false positives with my installation since upgrading to the latest 2014R1.3 patch. Mainly, random service checks are timing out and causing false alarms when the application is not experiencing any outages. Looking back thru my sys...

Alright, feature request has been put in for this.

http://tracker.nagios.com/view.php?id=562

I hate to bring ghosts back from the grave, has any progress been made on this problem? I've been asked to disable the auto check for notifications in my environment.

I am assuming you are running on a Red Hat box or a derivative. Edit /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe Change disable = true Restart xinetd (service xinetd restart) Run NRPE in stand alone daemon mode. /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -d You should be able to see it running in your proc...

For troubleshooting reasons, I recommend doing this... 1. Disable xinetd nrpe plugin and start the nrpe daemon so its persistent. This will eliminate any possibility its an issue with xinetd. 2. Check your logs... if something is wrong on the client machine, nrpe will normally yelp into /var/log/mes...

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I agree, this needs to change for readability. Once you have multiple ( like 50+ ) groups with free flow descriptions, its overwhelmingly difficult to find certain groups. Groups should be sorted based on name, not the description.

I've opened a enhancement ticket as well.

Luckily for you, I have gone thru all of this recently and can answer most of your questions. Sadly, it will take A LOT of writing to explain everything at a detailed level... I'd be willing to answer your questions via a phone call or skype video conference if you'd like.... I hate having to type a...

The magic that will solve your problems are called templates.

Create a service template for group A to use with 24x7 notifications and a separate template for group B to use with business hour notifications only.

I know of three solutions to this and none of them involve a fancy API and I can only recommend one of them. Have your bootstrap process create and manage static files in the /usr/local/nagios/etc/static directory. My organization is currently doing this with Ansible on provisioning / de-provisionin...