“The nagios log shows Host Notification[05-04-2006 10:19:45] HOST NOTIFICATION: cdiaz;… when an alert should be sent.”
So what’s the problem? Did you not get the notification or something? If it worked in the command line, and won’t in nagios, then my guess is, that you need to su - nagios and try the command line again. It might fail as user nagios, and tell you WHY it failed.
Your contact may not want to be notified, so no message is sent. Perhaps your contact is not even a contact for the failed service. It could be many things. Double check your files/settings. I’m sure you missed something.
If I see this: HOST NOTIFICATION: cdiaz;All4Ed;UP;host-notify-by-email;TCP OK - 0.033 second response time on port xxxx in the nagios log, doesn’t that mean that it tried to notify user cdiaz? That user is in the contact group for the host, has notify times of 24x7 and sending as any user including the nagios user to that email account from the command line works.