Wrong Host-Notifications

[andy_p]

Nagios sends sporadically ** PROBLEM Host Alert: sw01 is DOWN ** "Info: CRITICAL - Host Unreachable" notifications although the "Host Status" is "UP" and green in the GUI.

The host uses the generic-switch template:

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define host{
        name                    generic-switch
        use                     generic-host
        check_period            24x7
        check_interval          5
        retry_interval          1
        max_check_attempts      10
        check_command           check-host-alive
        notification_period     24x7
        notification_interval   30
        notification_options    d,r
        contact_groups          admins 
        register                0
        }

I tried to debug with "debug_level=32" but there aren't any entries for the wrong notifications.

I also tried to disable notifications for this host:

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notifications_enabled   0
notification_options    n

Nagios still sends wrong notifications.

Any suggestions, solving this strange behaviour?

Thanks in advance,
Andy

[lmiltchev]

Can you show us the "sw01" host definition as well?

[andy_p]

Can you show us the "sw01" host definition as well?

sure:

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define host{
    use             generic-switch
    host_name       sw01
    alias           Switch 01
    address         1.2.3.4
    hostgroups      switches
    parents         gateway
    }

Best regards,
Andy

[agriffin]

Do you have more than one Nagios instance running? What's the output of the following command?

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ps -o user,pid,ppid,%cpu,%mem,etime,args -p $(pgrep -d, nagios)