[PLUG] Nagios

[Paul Heinlein]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Mike Witt wrote:

> Ok, well since it sounds like a couple of people are using it... One 
> thing I'm stuck is is that I can't get notifications working for 
> services. (They work for hosts.)

What version of nagios are you running? I'm using 2.0b3; if you're 
somewhere in that ballpark, then these snippets may be helpful:

define service {
   name                  enterprise-service
   register              0
   check_period          24x7
   contact_groups        admins
   max_check_attempts    3
   normal_check_interval 30
   notification_interval 60
   notification_options  w,c,r
   notification_period   24x7
   retry_check_interval  2
   }

   [....]

define service {
   host_name             BlahBlah
   service_description   SMTP server
   check_command         check_smtp
   use                   enterprise-service
   }

I'd also be interested to know if anything shows up in your system 
logs. Does nagios try to send messages but get thwarted by local SMTP 
configs? Do you have a smarthost somewhere in your e-mail chain that's 
refusing to relay?

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