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Hi guys, Thanks for your suggestions. I will be implementing both, the check_dns and debug logging, to try and find out what exactly is going on. The only "downside" right now is that it may be a while before I actually get to use my new toys. I guess now all I really need to do is wait......

Hi Box293, Thanks for your response. All our hosts use DNS names for their address directive. If it is a DNS issue that keeps popping up, it would make sense since we use Digital Ocean quite a bit and occasionally they do give us a bit of grief relating to this. But on second thought, this would the...

Hi, We're using nagios core 3.5.1 and every once in a while, we will experience a terrible bit of confusion. All of our services for each of our hosts will return "(null)" without any rhyme or reason. Also the occasional "No address associated with hostname" will sometimes appear...

You may indeed sir.

Hi jdalrymple,

Thats exactly what i ended up doing. I found this http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/ext ... and_id=119 and tweaked it a bit to my liking. It's only been a few days but so far so good.

Hi, I intended using these as notification periods on services. define service{ name my_service_template use generic-service retain_nonstatus_information 1 contact_groups my_contacts notification_period 24x7_no_reboot register 0 } All services then use this template. define service { hostgroup_name ...

Thanks for the advice. Upon looking at things again, it seems the timeperiod requires a name field in order for this to work (Cant confirm as i have not tested this). Thing is, i wanted to use nagios defaults and not have to define my own, especially when its only got one line different to nagios' o...

Im wondering if its possible to use timeperiod inheritance in nagios core 3.5.1. Essentially all i want to do is exclude about 5-10 minutes from the 24x7 timeperiod that nagios defines. # cat /etc/nagios3/conf.d/timeperiods_nagios2.cfg ################################################################...

Thanks for your advice thus far @jdalrymple Just out of curiosity, would using service dependencies not be a better solution? Reading up on them, I think I may have found a kind of hack to achieve what I need. --> Set all services stemming from the test-servers host group to be dependent on a servic...

Sorry I failed to mention that this test server is set up in the exact same way as many other servers. My services config looks something like this for all my services define service { hostgroup_name real-servers,test-servers service_description Current Load check_command check_nrpe_1arg!check_load_...