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The fact that these are .gvfs (Gnome Virtual File System?) mounts in home directories makes me think you've got something cool like networked home directories. If that's the case, the fileserver should hopefully be monitored already, so you could simply exclude those mount points from the check? In ...

Sorry if I've misunderstood, but it sounds to me like you just need to increase max_check_attempts, or retry_interval, in order to prevent these false positives.

The checks run as user "nagios" and you're attempting to check home directories, which "nagios" probably isn't allowed to traverse. You'd need to add an ACL (if possible) or slacken permissions to check these directories.

What does /var/log/maillog show at the time Nagios tries to send notifications?

In that case it is a Nagios configuration problem (I thought Nagios had tried to send you mail - my bad!).

Can you show us the service and contact configurations?

Although I hate "RTFM" replies, I've got no experience with WMI, but there appears to be a very extensive and well documented plugin here. The documentation on the website includes sample command definitions.

Short answer is "no". Nagios has to take decisions on things like send alerts, tripping event handlers etc. based on these parameters. You can of course test the value of these in event handler or notification scripts so that the output appears differently (changing "DOWN" to &qu...

What does /var/log/maillog show when: 1) you send a manual mail (su to nagios, run "echo "test" | mail -s "test mail" your.email@address.com") 2) when Nagios attempts to send you a mail Also, double check the command the service is configured to use, just in case! Nagio...

Good news!

Have a read on notifications. This should give you an idea of the steps Nagios takes in deciding whether to send an alert or not.

lafargeuser wrote:Can I supress the reoccurrence of email ?

Set "notification_interval" to "0" for the checks you want to suppress repeat alerts for. But hopefully you found this yourself..