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So, what happened was during a yum update, nagios was updated. but it did not correctly use the start command to the new cfg file. it was trying to use the old one still....

Once we corrected that, and had to chown the nagios log file then things started working correctly.

Has anyone seen this type of issue before where via the web page, you will try to enable notifications on a host, or a host group, and when you click "commit". The process just hangs and then you get a time out? viewing the /var/log/http/error_log this is what I see when trying to "co...

Thanks to both of you.
That really explained it in easier terms to understand.

Very much appreciated!

Can someone help me understand the difference in flap vs. obsess?

Is Obsess needed for basic monitoring services?

thank you!

yeah, a host down is taking around 8 minutes it seems. timed it a couple of rounds.
the recovery email is sent about a minute after the server is back up.

ok cool. my entry is like this now and i'm getting alerts quicker. define host{ use windows-server host_name myhost.com alias hyhost.com check_command check-host-alive max_check_attempts 1 notification_interval 30 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,r } can max_check_attempts be set to &...

Am I correct in thinking that these entries would go into my hosts.cfg file? OLD: define host{ use windows-server host_name myserver.com alias mysever.com } define service{ use generic-service host_name myserver.com service_description PING check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60% } NEW: define ...

I've been running nagios core and have it set up properly to the standards, but I am looking for a way to get faster email notifications when check_ping determines that a server is in critical state. If I halt a server to test check_ping/email notifications, it generally takes about 10 minutes for m...