Nagios not sending out notifications HARD

[FierUser]

I've been trying to setup inheritance for large scale deployment and along the way it seems I screwed up my configuration. It doesn't seem to work anymore for explicit configuration files. There's nothing wrong with the sendmail and the commands.cfg since I haven't change anything there. I suspect I must've broken my template definitions somewhere.

client.cfg

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define host {
use                                     linux-server
host_name                               CLIENT
alias                                   Test server to monitor stuff
address                                 #.#.#.#
flap_detection_enabled                  0
contacts                                nagiosadmin
}

templates.cfg

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define host{
        name                            generic-host    ; The name of this host template
        notifications_enabled           1               ; Host notifications are enabled
        event_handler_enabled           1               ; Host event handler is enabled
        flap_detection_enabled          1               ; Flap detection is enabled
        process_perf_data               1               ; Process performance data
        retain_status_information       1               ; Retain status information across program restarts
        retain_nonstatus_information    1               ; Retain non-status information across program restarts
        notification_period             24x7            ; Send host notifications at any time
        contact_groups                  admins          ; Notifications get sent to the admins by default
        register                        0               ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL HOST, JUST A TEMPLATE!
        }

define host{
        name                            linux-server    ; The name of this host template
        use                             generic-host    ; This template inherits other values from the generic-host template
        check_period                    24x7            ; By default, Linux hosts are checked round the clock
        check_interval                  5               ; Actively check the host every 5 minutes
        retry_interval                  1               ; Schedule host check retries at 1 minute intervals
        max_check_attempts              10              ; Check each Linux host 10 times (max)
        check_command                   check-host-alive ; Default command to check Linux hosts
        notification_interval           5               ; Resend notifications every 1 hours
        retry_interval                  2               ; Retry host check
        notification_options            d,u,r           ; Notify when down, unreachable, and recovery
        register                        0               ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL HOST, JUST A TEMPLATE!
        }

contacts.cfg

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define contact{
        contact_name                            nagiosadmin ; Short name of user
        alias                                   Nagios Admin            ; Full name of user
        email                                   x@x.com      ; <<***** CHANGE THIS TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ******
        service_notifications_enabled           1
        service_notification_period             24x7
        service_notification_options            w,u,c,r,f,s
        service_notification_commands           notify-service-by-email
        host_notifications_enabled              1
        host_notification_period                24x7
        host_notification_options               d,u,r,f,s
        host_notification_commands              notify-host-by-email
        }

define contactgroup{
        contactgroup_name       admins
        alias                   Nagios Administrators
        members                 nagiosadmin

        }

[Box293]

I would look in the /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache file to see what the "final object" settings are.

Does the host command "Send a custom host notification" work, does that notification get received?

Can you show us a screenshot of "View Alert History For This Host" for a period when a host went into a HARD state.
Can you show us a screenshot of "View Availability Report For This Host" for a period when a host went into a HARD state.

[FierUser]

Thank you Box293, I think I figured it out. I had a stray
host_notification_options
service_nofication_options

declared else where with the n options which overrode everything else and was why it was stopping everything. D'oh. Thank you for pointing out objects.cache though Will help in the future!

[Box293]

Excellent, glad we got you working ... objects.cache really helps understand what the final objects is.