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That fixed the problem (other than formatting errors on my part )!

Can you expand upon the explanation of the difference between single quotes and double quotes?

Thanks for all the help!

Rod

# Mark W define contact{ contact_name markw ; Short name of user use generic-contact ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template alias Mark W ; Full name of user email markw@mail2.mxxxxxxxx.net ; email address host_notifications_enabled 1 # host_notification_options d,r host_notification...

I get the following error in the nagios.log when things go down; [1473169558] HOST NOTIFICATION: markw;test.switch;DOWN;notify-host-by-email-2;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable (192.168.0.10) [1473169558] wproc: NOTIFY job 4 from worker Core Worker 21777 is a non-check helper but exited with return code 2...

Thanks ssax,

It mostly works. I added debug commands to find out what wasn't working. Is there any reason it won't seem to pass $CONTACTEMAIL$?

R

Good day, I'm trying to find out if anyone has come up with a way to suppress UP notification for a HOST after it has been in an UNREACHABLE state. Now that I think about it, it would also be nice to get the DOWN notifications after UNREACHABLE. Thus limiting the number of notifications after and ou...