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Hi people,
after upgrade to Nagios 2012 everthing look fine, and I started to integrate new systems, like before i check sometimes the Configuration Snapshot.

So I've seen the following Warnings:

Running pre-flight check on configuration data...

Checking services...
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYU Network Interface eth0' for host 'ganymed.ch.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYU Network Interface eth1' for host 'ganymed.ch.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYU Network Interface eth0' for host 'pales.ch.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYU Network Interface eth1' for host 'pales.ch.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYU Timestamp' for host 'webspn01.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Checked 8732 services.
Checking hosts...
Checked 458 hosts.
Checking host groups...
Checked 24 host groups.
Checking service groups...
Checked 27 service groups.
Checking contacts...
Checked 19 contacts.
Checking contact groups...
Checked 13 contact groups.
Checking service escalations...
Checked 0 service escalations.
Checking service dependencies...
Checked 0 service dependencies.
Checking host escalations...
Checked 0 host escalations.
Checking host dependencies...
Checked 0 host dependencies.
Checking commands...
Checked 160 commands.
Checking time periods...
Checked 7 time periods.
Checking for circular paths between hosts...
Checking for circular host and service dependencies...
Checking global event handlers...
Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
Checking misc settings...

Total Warnings: 5
Total Errors: 0

Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check

So I tried to fix them, and revert the settings to my template, means remove all setting directly on the service, the I received following (I removed some lines).

Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYS-W - State of Service McAfee Validation Trust Protection' for host 'widete28.ch.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYS-W - State of Service McAfee McShield' for host 'widete28.ch.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYS-W - State of Service McAfee Task Manager' for host 'widete28.ch.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYS-W+U - Check SNMP Trap Critical' for host 'widete28.ch.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYS-W+U - Check SNMP Trap Warning' for host 'widete28.ch.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'Input / Output for VMHost' for host 'widevs08.ch.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYS-W - State of Service McAfee Validation Trust Protection' for host 'zagrdc01.hr.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYS-W - State of Service McAfee McShield' for host 'zagrdc01.hr.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYS-W - State of Service McAfee Task Manager' for host 'zagrdc01.hr.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYS-W+U - Check SNMP Trap Critical' for host 'zagrdc01.hr.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Warning: Recovery notification option in service 'SYS-W+U - Check SNMP Trap Warning' for host 'zagrdc01.hr.sika.com' doesn't make any sense - specify warning and/or critical options as well
Checked 8732 services.
Checking hosts...
Checked 458 hosts.
Checking host groups...
Checked 24 host groups.
Checking service groups...
Checked 27 service groups.
Checking contacts...
Checked 19 contacts.
Checking contact groups...
Checked 13 contact groups.
Checking service escalations...
Checked 0 service escalations.
Checking service dependencies...
Checked 0 service dependencies.
Checking host escalations...
Checked 0 host escalations.
Checking host dependencies...
Checked 0 host dependencies.
Checking commands...
Checked 160 commands.
Checking time periods...
Checked 7 time periods.
Checking for circular paths between hosts...
Checking for circular host and service dependencies...
Checking global event handlers...
Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
Checking misc settings...

Total Warnings: 2362
Total Errors: 0

Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check

See the total of warning goes from 5 to 2362 !!!!!! What is going on here ???
On top in the template the settings are correct, I've doublechecked that.

Any Idea


Regards Andy

Could you, please, email us your latest configuration snapshot to [email protected]? It would be easier to troubleshoot your issue via email or/and remote sessions.

find attached the requested snapshot.I can be available for a remote session today lets say from 5 PM local time Switzerland, which I'm not sure is somewhat around 10:00 AM your time. Or you may suggest another time/day.

Thanks Andy

btw: in the meantime I've updated to R1.2

resolved via email