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Posted: **Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:28 am**

I'm developing an automation tool for managing nagios (nagiosql is not sufficient enough for me).

When I am doing a integration test with nagios, something weird happens.

Here is the situation:

1. Nagios Configuration

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# grep log_notification /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
log_notifications=1

#grep enable_notifications /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
enable_notifications=1

2. I created a sample contact, host, service, all without using templates

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define contact { 
    contact_name    jone.doe
    host_notifications_enabled  1
    service_notifications_enabled   1
    host_notification_period    7x24
    service_notification_period 7x24
    host_notification_options   d,u,r,f,s,n
    service_notification_options    w,u,c,r,f,s,n
    email   [email protected]
    host_notification_commands  notify_service_by_state
    service_notification_commands   notify_service_by_state
}

define host{
    host_name   localhost
    address localhost
    max_check_attempts  1
    check_period    7x24
    active_checks_enabled   1
    passive_checks_enabled  0
    check_command   check_host_alive
}

define service{
    host_name   localhost
    service_description check_the_process_count_of_the_local_machine
    check_command   check_local_procs!10!20!RSZDT
    max_check_attempts  3
    check_interval  3
    retry_interval  1
    notification_interval   3
    check_period    7x24
    notification_period 7x24
    notifications_enabled   1
    contacts   john.doe
}

3. Hereby are some additional configuration file:

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define timeperiod{
    timeperiod_name 7x24
    alias   7x24
    monday  00:00-24:00
    tuesday 00:00-24:00
    wednesday   00:00-24:00
    thursday    00:00-24:00
    friday  00:00-24:00
    saturday    00:00-24:00
    sunday  00:00-24:00
}

define command { 
    command_name    check_local_procs
    command_line    $USER1$/check_procs -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -s $ARG3$
}

define command { 
    command_name    notify_service_by_state
    command_line    /usr/local/nagios/etc/scripts/notify.py "$SERVICESTATE$" "$CONTACTEMAIL$" "$CONTACTADDRESS1$" "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$" "$HOSTALIAS$" "$SERVICEDESC$" "$HOSTADDRESS$" "$SERVICEOUTPUT$" "$LONGDATETIME$"
}

define command { 
    command_name    check_host_alive
    command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5
}

and this is the notify.py source code, all packages installed.

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#!/usr/bin/python
#coding:utf-8
import codecs
import sys
import urllib
import commands

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.header import Header

import time

fi = codecs.open('/data/appdatas/logs/message.log', 'a' , encoding='utf-8')
fi.write("=======Begin Log\n");
fi.write("Notify\n");
fi.write(time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') + "\n");
fi.write(sys.argv[1]+ "\n");
fi.write("End Log=========\n");
fi.close()

To simplify the test process, I had

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chmod +777 to the log_file

.

And

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chmod +x notify.py

. And I've tested to execute the python script in the terminal, and there are logs in the log file.

As you can see the check_local_proc command. This command will return a code 2 as it executed.

In the nagios.log file, I have see these logs:

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[1449588806] SERVICE ALERT: localhost;check_the_process_count_of_the_local_machine;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;PROCS CRITICAL: 423 processes with STATE = RSZDT
[1449588866] SERVICE ALERT: localhost;check_the_process_count_of_the_local_machine;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;PROCS CRITICAL: 423 processes with STATE = RSZDT
[1449588926] SERVICE ALERT: localhost;check_the_process_count_of_the_local_machine;CRITICAL;HARD;3;PROCS CRITICAL: 423 processes with STATE = RSZDT

As you can see from the log, this service is checked every 1 minute.

But there's no log in the message.log file (no execution of the notify.py).

Would you please help me with this problem.

This is the Url on stackoverflow.com
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3416 ... ifications

Posted: **Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:40 pm**

It looks like you answered your own question on the SO link, so I will post it here for reference and close the thread:

I know why I cann't sent any notification. Because I wrongly configured contact's configuration. According to the official document: Nagios Object Definitions, the field host_notification_options [d,u,r,f,s,n], service_notification_options [w,u,c,r,f,s,n]; the option n means the contact will not receive any notifications.

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