Problem with email alerts

Nagios Nagios Configuration support
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hey, i have been noticing that instead of having pages that say exactly what is going on, i just get an “UP” page with a “PROBLEM” but it does not say what the problem is.

For example today when I came in one of the servers had a drive that was almost at capacity. Instead of getting a message saying that the disk was at 99% I got a page that says:

Subject: Host UP alert for tflserver!
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:48:19 -0600 (CST)

***** Nagios *****

Notification Type: PROBLEM
Host: tflserver
State: UP
Address: 192.168.100.2
Info: PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.25 ms

Date/Time: Tue Mar 14 07:48:19 CST 2006

anyone have any idea why this might be happening?

2

did you possibly play around with the notify by email command?

Luca

3

You know what? i actually use nagiosQL 2005. It would seem that I just left the Event handler blank. I changed it to notify-by-email. I bet that fixes it. Thanks!

4

Hmm… Fixed that and still having the same problem. I am using a monitored service instead of the disk now because I can stop it to test if the notification is working proper

5

Perhaps, as Luca suggested, there’s something wrong with your notify-by-email command. You could try posting it here and letting us have a look at it. However, I would guess there’s something more to your problem, since you should just be using macros to define your e-mail notification ($HOSTSTATE$, $SERVICEOUTPUT$, etc.).

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Here is my notify by email command-

‘notify-by-email’ command definition

define command{
command_name notify-by-email
command_line /usr/bin/printf “%b” “***** Nagios ***\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s " $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **” $CONTACTEMAIL$
}

7

looks normal enough, right? its the stock notify by email command…

8

are you always getting those UP notifications instead of the real problem notification?
check the notificaitons page to see what has been sent out.

Luca

9

No, I also get down alerts… It seems like the only alert that is working is the check_ping plugin as far as notifacations are concerned. But for example if a disk gets twards full or a service stops, I still get a notifacation, but it just says host up and “PROBLEM”…

(sorry about the long pause here, was out sick for a couple days)

10

Thanks Jakkedup-

My problem was that I was using the event handler to notify. Got confused / lazy per nagiosQL :?

Sorry :frowning:

Thanks for checking everyone!

11

evidently you got the answer from another forum post, since I don’t see my suggestion in this one. But yea, the first thing I was going to say was “why are you using an eventhandler for a notification?” hehe